Question

You need 1/2 a yard of lace at neck and 2/6 yard for both wrist. how much lace is needed?

Answer 1

So to set this up you need common denominators so that both of the fractions have the same bottom number.
The correct answer should be 5/6 and my work is shown below

Answer 2

5/6 yards of lace because 1/2= 3/6 and 3/6 + 2/6 = 5/6