3/16" + 11/16"
Adding two fractions of an inch, exactly — the everyday jobsite arithmetic that a decimal calculator gets wrong. Reduced, carried, and shown in millimetres.
3/16" + 11/16" =
=0-7/8"
Sum
0-7/8"
Decimal inch
0.875"
Millimetres
22.225 mm
3/16" − 11/16"
-0-1/2"
The work
Over a common denominator
Put both over 16:
3/16 = 3/16 and 11/16 = 11/16. Add the tops: 3/16 + 11/16 = 14/16. Reduced, that's 0-7/8" (0.875 inches). TapeMath tracks it as an exact fraction, so it lands dead on the tape mark.Keep going
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