step by step ex:
Add: 3/
8 + 2/
3
= 3 · 3/
8 · 3 + 2 · 8/
3 · 8 = 9/
24 + 16/
24 = 9 + 16/
24 = 25/
24
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(8, 3) = 24. In practice, it is enough to find the common denominator (not necessarily the lowest) by multiplying the denominators: 8 × 3 = 24. In the following intermediate step, it cannot further simplify the fraction result by canceling.
In other words - three eighths plus two thirds = twenty-five twenty-fourths.
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