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A. S. Adikesavan

May 14, 2016

$5/8$

Explanation:

Let the fraction be $p/q$ .

Then, $(p+q)/(q-p)=13/3$ .

So, $((p+q)+(q-p))/ ((p+q)-(q-p))=(13+3)/(13-3)$ . Eimplifying,

$q/p=16/10$ . , and the lower form of $p/q=5/8$ satisfies the last condition.

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