Question

Joey and harper are making homemade lemonade by juicing lemons. Joey squeezed 2 1/8 cups of lemon juice and harper sueezed1 2/3 cups. how much lemon juice do they have combined.​

Answer 1

3 19/24

Explanation:

The easiest way to add these is to make them into mixed numbers with the same denominator or a common denominator.

The least common multiple of 8 and 3 is 24 meaning we convert the fractions into 24ths.

1/8 = 3/24 and 2/3 = 16/24

Now we can add the two amounts:

2 3/24 + 1 16/24 = 3 19/24

So they have 3 and 19/24ths cups of lemon juice.