Question

What's 1/2 + 1/3? Y'all please help me . And when or if you can give me the answer can you do step-by-step on how you did that so I can do it myself next time?

Answer 1

Answer:

5/6

Step-by-step explanation:

fractions! exciting :D

what you wanna do is get them to a common denominator, or bottom. In this case, the least common factor between 2 and 3 is six. To get that common denominator we should cross multiply-

That is, we'll take the denominator in 1/2, 2, and multiply it to both the numerator and denominator of our second fraction, making it 2/6. 2/6 is equal to 1/3 ! We can then do the same from 1/3 to 1/2, multiplying both 1 and 2 by three. That gives us 3/6 , which is equivalent to 1/2! I'mma include a visual below to make sure this makes sense because I may not be explaining it the best.

So, now we have 3/6 + 2/6 , and because we have common denominators we can just add across the top. That gives us 5/6 as the final answer.

Answer 2

First the common denominator has to be 6. So to get to 6 you multiply the 2 by 3 and the numerator by 3 giving 3 over 6 then you multiply 3 times 2 to get to 6 so the following fraction is 2 over 6. So when u add the two together it gives you 5 6ths