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Okay Aspiring math people Next up A drill for you

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Here we go Consider the equation Three fourths minus one

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twelfth equals acts Indicates location of exxon The number line

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shown Assume that all points on the number line are

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equal distant All right well let's think about this first

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step here's just solve the expression in the problem the

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lowest common denominator here is twelve right so it's going

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to be nine twelve minus one twelve and that gets

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us eight twelves and eight twelves is what is that

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we can take out fours from there we've got two

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fours up here and three fours down there so it's

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two thirds all right so that's our most reduced number

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here now where do we put it on this number

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line equal distant thing well all this is great and

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everything but we've got to find out what the letter

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something the number line actually represent their seven total marks

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here counting five letters and the zero and the one

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there which gives us six inter spaces yeah that would

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be the distance between zero and a right there for

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example what were told that the points are equal distance

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so each inter space represents one sixth so why don't

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we just rewrite everything with our fancy new actual numbers

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instead of just hash marks but wait none of these

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looks like two thirds luckily fractions are malleable and we

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confined an equivalent fraction that had six in the denominator

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We've got four six right We just multiplied by two

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over to for the two thirds Ever get a six

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and a bottom wealth four six is located right here

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One two three four It's the same tick Mark is

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the 1 labeled d in the original diagram So that's 00:01:38.311 --> [endTime] our answer Yeah Answers ia's in We're done

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