Question

Jai and Kim need to collect cans of for for a food drive jai collects (65/100) of the total cans needed, and Kim collects (2/10) of the total cans needed what fraction of the total number of cans did they collect altogether

Answer 1

Let t = total number of cans they collected.

(65/100)t + (2/10)t

We can now add the two algebraic fractions.

LCD = 100

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