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To: evad

"Try that one with 2/3 + 1/7"

That would have to be 2*7 + 3 over 7 * 3 = 17/21.


184 posted on 01/01/2007 8:31:45 AM PST by angeliquemb9 (Didn't learn fractions until I had to teach it.)
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To: angeliquemb9
"Try that one with 2/3 + 1/7"
That would have to be 2*7 + 3 over 7 * 3 = 17/21.

ahh..so, just for fun, you multiply the numerator of fraction x (x=in this case 2/3) times the denominator of fraction y (y=in this case 1/7) and then add the result to the denominator of x and place that sum over the product of the x denominator and the y denominator.

Very good...and simple to understand too :)

185 posted on 01/01/2007 9:09:40 AM PST by evad
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