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Work out
2 2/7 +1 1/4
Give your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.​

User Yaroslav Fyodorov
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Answer:

It is 3 15/28.

Explanation:

To solve this problem, we first need to add the whole numbers: 2 + 1 = 3. Next, we need to add the fractions. To do this, we need to find a common denominator for the fractions 2/7 and 1/4. A common denominator for these two fractions is 28, so we can convert the fractions to equivalent fractions with a denominator of 28: 2/7 is equivalent to 8/28 and 1/4 is equivalent to 7/28. With the fractions written in this form, we can add them to get 8/28 + 7/28 = 15/28.

Finally, we need to add the whole number 3 and the fraction 15/28 to get our final answer. To do this, we need to convert the fraction 15/28 to a mixed number. We can do this by dividing 15 by 28 to get a quotient of 0 and a remainder of 15. This means that the mixed number equivalent of 15/28 is 0 + 15/28. Therefore, our final answer is 3 + 0 + 15/28 = 3 + 15/28 = 3 15/28. This is the simplest form of the mixed number, so our final answer is 3 15/28.

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