How do you simplify $3 1/6 + 4 1/4$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-07-16T08:03:59

You should add the two numbers to obtain a simplified answer

To add the two numbers we may observe that:

$3 1/6=3+1/6$ , and similarly

$4 1/4=4+1/4$ . Now we can add and rearrange:

$3 1/6+4 1/4=3+1/6+4+1/4=3+4 +1/6+1/4= 7+1/6+1/4$

We can now add the fractions:

$1/6+1/4=2/12+3/12=5/12$ , and the solution is then:

$7+5/12=7 5/12$

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