Question

Drag vegetables to represent each total weight shown.

Answer 1

The tomato goes to the last box

The carrot goes to the middle box

The broccoli goes to the first box

Explanation:

Answer 2

The blanks are filled as follows

1. 4/8 lb of vegetables

• 4 pieces of 1/8 lb vegetable

2. 5/6 lb of vegetables

• 5 pieces of 1/6 lb vegetable

3. 3/4 lb of vegetables

• 3 pieces of 1/4 lb vegetable

How to fill the blanks

When adding fractions with different denominators, you need to find a common denominator before adding the numerators.

In this case the denominators are common. When adding fractions with the same denominator, you simply add the numerators together while keeping the common denominator unchanged.

This general formula is used to get the number of vegetables to fill the balnk on each instance.