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If your teacher asks you to subtract 2/3 from 2 & 2/3 but she tells you to use the circular method, which would turn 2 & 2/3 into 7/3 should and the answer is 5/3. Then she asks you to compare, do you compare 2 & 2/3 with 2/3 or 7/3 with 2/3 ?

 Jan 27, 2016
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Note  2 + 2/3   =  [3*2 + 2] / 3   =  [ 6 + 2] / 3  =  8/3

 

So....

 

8/3   - 2/3   = 6/3  = 2

 

This makes sense.......  [2 + 2/3 - 2/3]   should  = 2   !!!

 

 

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 Jan 28, 2016

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