Answer:
1/4 + 1/6 = 5/12 ≅ 0.4166667
Explanation:
1. Add 1/4+1/6=1*3/4*3+1*2/6*2=3/12+2/12=3+2/12=5/12
For adding, subtracting, and comparing fractions, it is suitable to adjust both fractions to a common (equal, identical) denominator. The common denominator you can calculate as the least common multiple of both denominators - LCM(4, 6) = 12. In practice, it is enough to find the common denominator (not necessarily the lowest) by multiplying the denominators: 4 × 6 = 24. In the following intermediate step, it cannot further simplify the fraction result by canceling.
In other words - one quarter plus one sixth = five twelfths.