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Len walks 3/10 mile in the morning. He walks 2/5 mile in the afternoon to a friends house. Len says that he walks a total of 5/15 mile in the morning and afternoon

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No he walks 7/10 of a mile
you have to make 2/5 have a common denominator with 3/10
so 2×2=4 (numerator)
2×5=10 (denominator)
4/10+3/10= 7/10
since you only add the numerator because the denominator makes it a like term
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