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We have negative 3/4[br]minus 7/6 minus 3/6.

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And there's many[br]ways to do this.

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But it immediately[br]jumps out at me

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that these last two numbers[br]have a 6 in the denominator.

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So I'm going to worry[br]about these first.

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I'm going to view this as[br]negative 7/6 minus 3/6.

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So if we have negative[br]7/6 minus 3/6,

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that's going to be the same[br]thing as negative 7 minus 3

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over 6.

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And of course, we[br]have this negative 3/4

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out front that[br]we're going to add

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to whatever we get over here.

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So this is these two terms[br]that I'm adding together.

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Negative 7 minus[br]3 is negative 10.

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So it's negative 10 over 6.

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And then I'm going to have[br]to add that to negative 3/4.

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And now I have to worry about[br]finding a common denominator.

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Let me write that so[br]they have a similar size.

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So now I have to worry about[br]finding a common denominator.

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What is the smallest number that[br]is a multiple of both 4 and 6?

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Well, it might jump out[br]at you that it's 12.

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You can literally just go[br]through the multiples of 4.

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Or you could look at[br]the prime factorization

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of both of these numbers.

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And what's the[br]smallest number that

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has all of the prime[br]factors of both of these?

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So you need two 2s, and[br]you need a 2 and a 3.

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So if you have two 2s and a[br]3, that's 4 times 3 is 12.

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So let's rewrite this[br]as something over 12

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plus something over 12.

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Well, to get your[br]denominator from 4 to 12,

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you have to multiply by 3.

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So let's multiply our[br]numerator by 3 as well.

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So if we multiply[br]negative 3 times 3,

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you're going to have negative 9.

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And to get your[br]denominator from 6 to 12,

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you have to multiply by 2.

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So let's multiply our[br]numerator by 2 as well so

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that we don't change the[br]value of the fraction.

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So that's going[br]to be negative 20.

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And now we're ready to add.

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Our common denominator is 12.

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And so this is going to be[br]negative 9 plus negative 20,

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or we could even write[br]that as minus 20,

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over 12, which is equal to--[br]and we deserve a drum roll now.

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This is negative 29 over 12.

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And 29 is a prime[br]number, so it's not

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going to share any common[br]factors other than 1 with 12.

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So we also have this in[br]the most simplified form.