Question

Mario is mixing paint for his walls. He mixes 1/6 gallon of blue pain and 5/8 gallon green paint in a large container. Which fraction represents the total amount of paint Mario mixes?

Answer 1

so to add fractions they need to have a common denominator, which in this case is 24. then multiply 1 by 4 and 5 by 3 because whatever you multiply the denominator by you need to do the same to the numerator, which will get you 4/24+15/24 then you add across the numerators and you get 19/24