Question

Melodie has 15 chickens aon her farm and each chicken weighs 4 1/4 pound. She has 20 ducklings.each duckling weighs 4/4 of a pound. How much do the chickens and ducklings weigh in total?

Answer 1

So, for this problem, they ask you to add

`4 * (1)/(4) + (4)/(4)`
we can say that 4/4= 1 so that are interchangeable

Answer 2

The chickens and ducklings weigh 83 3/4 pounds in total. You could also write 83.75 pounds.