Subtracting a Mixed Number From a Whole Number

[Isaacbonane]

my teacher just read off the textbook, THANK YOU!!!

[northstar15]

@Isaacbonane you're welcome. How can a teacher not get up and demonstrate? Most students need to SEE how it's done...

[northstar15]

@Isaacbonane you're welcome. How can a teacher not get up and demonstrate? Most students need to SEE how it's done...

[GaMrGuYoFaWeSoMe]

thanks this helps me alot!!!!!

[Ashanti455]

voice is not clear

[spanishmetanio]

@Ashanti455 maybe it's your computer,the voice is fine on mine.just saying

[countryhunnie84]

I can understand Kaylaandpookie's issue, even though it was a month ago; but this might help anyone else who has the same question. 4 became 3 because you borrowed from it. Put simply 4-1=3, so now you borrowed from the four and that turned it into 7/7, which equals 1 in the end. However, since you had to borrow 1 from the 4 it turns it into 3, and the 1 that you borrowed turned it into the fraction. I hope this helps.

[legoman123234]

Thanks! You just helped me a lot!

[jeo252011]

Youtube is better -__-

[pokemon2613]

Thank u! this video just helped me out with my homework! :)

[eminemfan1246]

how do u change 17 into a mixed number

[sayruuhh]

@eminemfan1246, the whole number 17? if so, it's just 17/1

17 divided by 1 is 17, so in any case, anything divided by 1 will remain the same.

[Kaylaandpookie]

I will have to research that a little more, I'm still not understanding why the 4 became a 3...... The only way I can comprehend it is maybe saying that since you had to create a fraction (7/7), that you had to take one away from the 4, which made it 3. If that made since. 

[northstar15]

@Kaylaandpookie What you are trying to do is make an equivalent VALUE for the 4 so you can then subtract

[Kaylaandpookie]

Wow you lost me on this one. Why did the 4 turn into a 3? I understand that you took the 7 from the bottom denominator and used it for the numerator and denominator for the fraction up top. Please explain. Thank you so much.

[northstar15]

@Kaylaandpookie yes, you basically have it. all you have to do is create a mixed number equivalent for your new numerator so that you can subtract the other fraction. You use 3 and 7/7 since and added to 7/7 -- which is really 1 -- makes 4. Hope this helps.

[polaronXDD]

thank you sir! :)



[Voyagerpeace]

How did 4 become a fraction of 3 7/7?

plz tell me i got like a test and I'm the only 6th grader who is left behind in these fractions.

[northstar15]

@Voyagerpeace 7/7 has a value of 1, since both the numerator and denominator are the same, and whenever this occurs, the value is one or one whole. So if you take 7/7, which is really 1, and add it to 3, this gives you 4.

[Voyagerpeace]

@northstar15 ohhhh thnx :]

[SOCCERGURL1012]

At first, i only knew how to subtract and add mixed numbers. But when i saw a question from my math textbook (my homework) that i wasn't so sure of how to solve it, i decided to google it to figure out how to solve problems like adding or subtracting a whole number by a mixed number. I found youtube under google, and it was this video. I checked it out, and sure enough, it REALLY helped me understand and actually "learn" how to solve those type of problems. Thank you so much "northstar15"!

[northstar15]

Amixed number is a whole number with a fraction part. What do you mean by "how do you make it a mixed number???

[143413crs]

i have question, how do u make it a mixed number?

[SOCCERGURL1012]

@143413crs i suggest you watch the video again, but this time, watch it closely and carefully. Learning how to make it a mixed number is in this video. Have a great day!

[crazysavvyloverlee]

@143413crs if your trying to make a normal fraction into a mixed number then i sugest this video{Simplifying Improper Fractions 3_0001.wmv} just copy and paste it to the bar above! it really helped me !

hope i helped you! have a nice day:D

[snowball1256]

Thanks

[bossgirlfly]

finally , i know how to subtract fractions!!!

[MsIlikepie2000]

OMG!!!Thanks so much for making this video,I can't wait to tell everybody at my school that I know how to do this because of you.best of all,my teacher hasn't moved on to this lesson yet,so this going to be better for an early start for me.Again,thank you for making this video,now I'm better at fractions because of you!

[northstar15]

@MsIlikepie2000 thnx 4 this nice comment

[johndcFTW]

question, can u also change the mixed number into a decimal number and do simplemath?

[northstar15]

@johndcFTW yes, absolutely

[TakTheShadow]

Thanx youre good

[tempofilmes]

thank you soooooo much, you are the best man !!! I wish you were my math teacher. keep doing the great job !!

[northstar15]

@tempofilmes thnx

[henrythebootleger]

Thank you so much. You are a life saver. God bless you.

I am now better with fractions because of you.

[northstar15]

@henrythebootleger thnx for this comment...

[cousinproductions101]

u are a homework god thx!!!!!!!

[catfudgetheater]

i really should have done my math packet earlier :P ty for this

[LereraJackson]

this explained things really well. I couldn't remember how to do it during the summer with worksheets. : )

[CockSmokinCrackHead]

THIS GUY IS AMAZING! thank you sooooo much, you made my day :)))))

[northstar15]

@CockSmokinCrackHead thnx 4 the comment :)

[CockSmokinCrackHead]

@northstar15 yeah sure thing buddy :)

[theitable]

This helped my on my homework A LOT faster. Are you a teacher? If not, YOU SHOULD BE 1! Great skills of teaching, better then my stupid math teacher. xD

[northstar15]

@theitable thnx for this comment :)

[thecrumps100]

GREAT VIDEO! :) 

[thecrumps100]

Great Video, I just didnt really get how you made the four into 3 7/7 could you make a vid on that??

[northstar15]

@thecrumps100 you are trying to do two things: make both numbers fractions, so that they are the same format or type of number; and, you are trying to find an equal value to 4 in fraction form. So, anytime you have the same numerator and denominator (e.g., 7/7), that equals one whole. If you add this to 3, you get 4; you use the 7/7 as the value of one because this makes the denoms the same in both fractions. Hope this helps...

[JacobDillonEvans]

Thank you so much you're a great teacher.