Can someone help me understand how you add fractions? Like step by step like for an a example 3 3/5 + 2 1/4=?
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3 3/5 can be written as (5*3 + 3)/5 = 18/5 2 1/4 can be written as (4*2 + 1)/4 = 9/4 Show more…
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