Question

1/10 plus 3/4 in simple form

Answer 1

`(17)/(20)`

Explanation:

The first step to adding any fraction is to find the common denominator, or in other words, to make the bottom number the same number.

The easiest way to do this is just to multiply the two bottom numbers together.

`(1)/(10)` turns into
`(4)/(40)` because if you multiply the bottom number, you also need to multiply the top.


`(3)/(4)` turns into
`(30)/(40)` because if you multiply 4 by 10 you also multiply 3 by 10.

Now that both fractions have a bottom number of 40, you can just add the top number and you get
`(34)/(40)` which can be simplified by dividing both top and bottom numbers by 2 to get
`(17)/(20)`