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Fraction ! Help !

a)  5 5/8 + 4 3/42 Greater than 10 or less than 10?

f)   4 7/8 + 8 7/8 Greater or less than 1/2?

WHY?????

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From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: Fraction ! Help !

Hi BEEEEEEEEEEE;

Welcome to the forum!

Let us look at the first one.

What the fraction really is:

Add the 5 and the 4 and you get 9, so you are left with:

Now reduce the 3 / 42:

Now let us add the

You multiply the

That goes into the numerator:

Then you multiply the 2 denominators:

That goes into the denominator so,

Now is

Greater than 10? What do you think?

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