Question

tyler mixed 1 1/2 cups of flour with 3/4 cup of sugar. What is the total amount of flour and sugar tyler mixed?

Answer 1

Hello! try simplifying those two numbers so that they have the same denominators. You can see that you can convert 11/2 of flour so that you can add it with 3/4 of sugar and get the total amount together.

To convert multiply the top and bottom by 2
`(11)/(2) &* (2)/(2) = (22)/(4)`:

Now add across the top numbers
`(3)/(4) + (22)/(4) = (25)/(4)`:

And finally simplify the fraction to get your final answer. You can pull out 24 out of 25 as the common factor for 4 and 6
`(25)/(4)=6 (1)/(4)` and the remainder will be in the numerator.