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You eat 3/10 of a coconut. Your friend eats 1/5 of the coconut. What fraction of the coconut do you and your friend eat? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form

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Answer:

1/2 of the coconut.

Explanation:

1/5 is equal to 2/10, so we can add these two fractions as 3/10 + 2/10, or 5/10. Simplifying this gets us 1/2, so you and your friend eat, in total, half of the coconut.

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