Question

About 1/10 of the bones in your body are in your skull. Your hands have about 1/4 of the bones in your body . Write and solve an equation to find the fraction of the bones in your body that are in your hands or skull.

Answer 1

Explanation:

so to get the answer, we just add the number of bones in your hands and bones in your skull1/4 (bones in hands) + 1/10 (bones in skull)we can only add fractions that have the same denominator (bottom number in a fraction) so we change the numbers to have a common denominator:5/20 + 2/20 = 7/20so 7/20 of your bones are in your hands or skull