Sandra needs #2 3/4# cups of flour for one kind of cookie and #3 3/8# cups for another kind. How much would she need for both kinds?
1 Answer
Mar 10, 2018
Explanation:
We can add the numbers together to find out.
One way we can do this is to separate out the whole numbers from the fractions:
We know that
To add the fractions, we need the denominators to be the same:
Notice that