What is the value of the expression?

1/3-5/6

Enter your answer in simplest form.

The answer is - 1/2 ...

(1/3 - 5/6) / 5/6

You want to make 1/3 and 5/6 have the same denominator so you multiply both the numerator and denominator of 1/3 by 2 to get 2/6. You plug that back into your equation to get: (2/6 - 5/6) / 5/6. 2/6 - 5/6 is - 3/6. - 3/6 divided by 5/6 is - 3/6 multiplied by 6/5 which is - 3/5.