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5/8" + 7/8"

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

5/8" + 7/8" =

=1-1/2"

Sum

1-1/2"

Decimal inch

1.5"

Millimetres

38.1 mm

5/8" − 7/8"

-0-1/4"

The work

Over a common denominator

Put both over 8: 5/8 = 5/8 and 7/8 = 7/8. Add the tops: 5/8 + 7/8 = 12/8, which carries past one inch. Reduced, that's 1-1/2" (1.5 inches). TapeMath tracks it as an exact fraction, so it lands dead on the tape mark.

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