Question

Maya has a red ribbon of length 7 1/4 m and a green ribbon of length 5 ¾ m. What is the total length of ribbons that Maya has?

Answer 1

Answer:

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Answer 2

Total length of ribbon = 71/4 + 5 ¾

So,

5 ¾ = 5×4+3/4 = 20+3/4 = 23/4

Therefore,

71/4 + 23/4

So when denominators are same we can add numerators directly

71+23/4 = 94/4 = 23.5 m

23.5 m is total length of ribbon maya has