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13/16" + 15/16"

Adding two fractions of an inch, exactly — the everyday jobsite arithmetic that a decimal calculator gets wrong. Reduced, carried, and shown in millimetres.

13/16" + 15/16" =
=1-3/4"
Sum
1-3/4"
Decimal inch
1.75"
Millimetres
44.45 mm
13/16" − 15/16"
-0-1/8"
The work

Over a common denominator

Put both over 16: 13/16 = 13/16 and 15/16 = 15/16. Add the tops: 13/16 + 15/16 = 28/16, which carries past one inch. Reduced, that's 1-3/4" (1.75 inches). TapeMath tracks it as an exact fraction, so it lands dead on the tape mark.
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