Since these fractions have different denominators, we need to find the least common multiple of the denominators.The least common multiple of 2 and 5 is 10, so we need to multiply to make each of the denominators = 10
1/2 ∗ 5/5 = 5/10
5/2∗ 2/2= 4/10
Since these fractions have the same denominator, we can just add the numerators