Step-by-step explanation: you add the full numbers together then you have to change the denominator of 3/4 to be /8 and what you do to the bottom you have to do to the top then you get 3 11/8 you then see how many 8 go into 11 to se if you need to add another full number and the numbers left over go back to the 8 making the awnser 4 and 3/8.