Iphone available space does not match itunes available space

On my iphone it shows I have 5.8 GB, but when I connect to itunes and sync, itunes shows 6.8 GB. Why would I have a delta?

If you have deleted files from your Mac in the past.....these files will usually stay on the Time Capsule for some period of time.  Could be months or many months.
But, at some unknown point in time....Time Machine will delete those files from the backups to clear space. When it does that, you would think that the sparsebundle would then show more available space on the drive....but it does not do that.
Sparsebundle files are curious items......they "grow" as files are added, but they do not appear to shrink when files are deleted.
For example....The sparsebundle file might have grown to 100 GB.  But Time Machine deleted 5 GB. The sparsebundle file will continue to show as 100 GB until the space that was gained when the files were deleted fills back up to 100 GB. At that point, the sparsebundle file will start to "grow" again.
This is very likely what is happening on your Time Capsule at this time. 
If you have been checking your backups by going into Time Machine and everything appears to be normal, then I would not be concerned.
It is possible to "shrink" the sparsebundle file and have it display the actual space that is being used.  But, you have to use Terminal commands to do this.
We can give you the commands to "compact" the sparsebundle if you want them....but unless you are an experienced Mac programmer, I would stay away. The Terminal is a very scary place.

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