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Simplify: `1+(-4)/5`

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Simplifying:
Adding `1` and `-4/-5`
`=1+(-4/5)`
Taking LCM, we get LCM as `5`
`=(5-4)/5`
`=1/5`
We get the answer as `1/5`.
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