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Eliza bought 3 2/6 yards of fabric. Gage bought 5/6 yards of fabric. How many yards of fabric do they have altogether.

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Answer:

4 1/6 yards

Explanation:

Are you struggling with adding the fractional parts?

Let's leave the 3 full yards out for a minute.

We want to know what 2/6 + 5/6 is, right?

When you ADD fractions you add the numerators, but keep the same denominator. So it's:

(2+5)/6 Remember being taught that?

So that's 7/6, which is an improper fraction.

Convert it to a mixed fraction:

1 1/6

Now add back in the 3 yards:

3 + 1 1/6 = 4 1/6 yards

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