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While making pastries, a bakery used 5 3/8 bags of wheat flour and 2 3/4 bags of white flour. How many bags of flour did the bakery use in all?

Answer 1

let's firstly convert the mixed fractions to improper fractions and then sum them up.

`\stackrel{mixed}{5(3)/(8)}\implies \cfrac{5\cdot 8+3}{8}\implies \stackrel{improper}{\cfrac{43}{8}}~\hfill \stackrel{mixed}{2(3)/(4)}\implies \cfrac{2\cdot 4+3}{4}\implies \stackrel{improper}{\cfrac{11}{4}} \\\\[-0.35em] ~\dotfill\\\\ \cfrac{43}{8}+\cfrac{11}{4}\implies \cfrac{(1)43~~+~~(2)11}{\underset{\textit{using this LCD}}{8}}\implies \cfrac{43+22}{8}\implies \cfrac{65}{8}\implies 8(1)/(8)`