Question

or Brendan watched a beetle on the sidewalk. It crawled 5/6 of a yard, then rested for a bit, and then crawled 1/3 of a yard farther. How far did the beetle crawl in all? Simplify your answer and write it as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

Answer 1

Mixed number - 1 1/6

Improper fraction - 7/6

Step-by-step explanation:

The goal of the question is to get you to add the 2 distances the beetle crawled together.

First you have to give the fractions the same denominator.

5/6 & 2/6 (to change 1/3 to 2/6 multiply the top and bottom by 2)

Then you simply add the numerators.

5+2/6

7/6

Since this can't be simplified anymore that is your answer.

Mixed number - 1 1/6

Improper fraction - 7/6

Answer 2

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