Question

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

Answer 1

You should add the two numbers to obtain a simplified answer

Explanation:

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`