Please help with 5 and 6

Compare the subtraction problems 6/8 - 5/8 = 1/8 and 6/9 - 7/9 = 1/9 why is the answer to the first problem positive and the answer to the second problem negative

Parks is wearing several rubber bracelets one third of the bracelets are tie-dye 1/6 are blue and 1/3 of the remainder are camouflage if parks wears 2 camouflage bracelets how many bracelets does he have on

On a string instrument, the length of a string varies inversely as the frequency of its vibrations. an 11-inch string has a frequency of 400 cylces per second. find the frequency of a 10-icnch string.