Summer Skills worksheets - All Saints
Summer Skills worksheets - All Saints
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SKILL<br />
30<br />
Name Date Period<br />
Subtracting Fractions<br />
To subtract fractions with like denominators, subtract the numerators.<br />
Write the difference over the common denominator. Simplify the<br />
difference if possible.<br />
Example 1 Subtract: 3 4 4<br />
1 .<br />
Step 1 Step 2<br />
Subtract the numerators. Write the Simplify the difference.<br />
difference over the like denominator.<br />
2<br />
3 4 1 4 3 1<br />
<br />
4<br />
or 2 4 2 4 1<br />
2<br />
2<br />
The GCF of 2 and 4 is 2.<br />
To subtract fractions with unlike denominators, rename the fractions with<br />
a common denominator. Then subtract the fractions.<br />
Example 2 Subtract: 1<br />
7<br />
0 5<br />
2 .<br />
1<br />
7<br />
0 1<br />
7<br />
0 Use 10 for the common denominator.<br />
2 5 4<br />
<br />
1 0<br />
3<br />
<br />
1 0<br />
Subtract. Write each difference in simplest form.<br />
1. 5 6 4 6 2. 1<br />
9<br />
0 3<br />
<br />
1 0<br />
9 3<br />
3. 1 6<br />
1 6<br />
4. 1 1 3<br />
<br />
12<br />
<br />
1 2<br />
© Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 59 Algebra
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