Question

(1) At the local nursery, 1/2 of the plants for sale are flowers and another 1/10 of them are

bushes. What fraction of the plants for sale are either flowers or bushes?

Answer 1

6/10

Explanation:

Look at is a whole. Half the plants are flowers, and just a few are bushes. That leaves other plants that are neither.

We can find a total amount of plants that are either flowers or bushes by combining the two.

Because 1/2 and 1/10 are not currently combinable, you must find a common denominator. This common denominator is 10. If you multiply 2 by 5, you'll get 10.

`(1)/(2) +(1)/(10)`

`(5)/(1) ((1)/(2) )+(1)/(10)`

`(5)/(10) +(1)/(10)`

`(6)/(10)`

This means that 6/10 of the whole number of plants are either flowers or bushes. You could also say it means that 4/10 of the plants are something other than flowers or bushes.

I hope this helped :)