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Malia bought shell beads and glass beads to weave into designs in her baskets. She bought 1/4 pound of shell beads and 3/8 pound of glass beads. How many pounds of beads did she buy?

Sagot :

Answer: 5/8

Step-by-step explanation:

To do this you have to add the weight of each purchase

[tex]\frac{1}{4} +\frac{3}{8}[/tex]

But in order to add them together, there has to be a common denominator.

In order to do this, you can multiply both the numerator and denominator of 1/4 by 2 to get a denominator of 8 as seen below:

[tex]\frac{1}{4}*\frac{2}{2} = \frac{2}{8}[/tex]

Now you can add them to get your final answer: When you are adding fractions with common denominators, simply add the numerators together and keep the denominator.

[tex]\frac{2}{8}+\frac{3}{8} = \frac{5}{8}[/tex]