How can equivalent fractions help when adding mixed numbers?
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A diagram helps.
Diagonal TO divides the rectangle into two triangles of base 10 and height 4. The area of the two of them together (the area of the rectangle) is 10*4 = 40.
The area of rectangle TYOC is 40 square units.
Diagonal TO divides the rectangle into two triangles of base 10 and height 4. The area of the two of them together (the area of the rectangle) is 10*4 = 40.
The area of rectangle TYOC is 40 square units.
The topics you should learn are equating denominators and fractions. This is summing up simple fractions.
So we have to make denominators' numbers the same in order to sum up them all (we can sum fractions if the denominators are the same) , and we did it by cross product (that thing on the picture)
Equating by lcm (least common multiple) is the easiest way, because you might see bigger numbers on other questions, and cross product will bring much bigger numbers, so this technic might confuse you.
By the way lcm of 4 and 5 is already 20
Hope it helps!
