Answer:
[tex]-1 \frac{3}{4}[/tex]
Step-by-step explanation:
Using this number line, we can plot our original number - [tex]\frac{3}{4}[/tex] (see picture attached)
Adding a negative is the same thing as subtracting - so we are subtracting [tex]2\frac{1}{2}[/tex] from [tex]\frac{3}{4}[/tex].
To subtract this, we can break up [tex]2\frac{1}{2}[/tex] into 3 parts: 1, 1, and [tex]\frac{1}{2}[/tex]. We can subtract each of these from the current number and see where we land up. (again see picture)
We land up at [tex]-1 \frac{3}{4}[/tex].
Hope this helped!
