Please finish these questions so I can check my answers. All my answers are at the bottom.

Adding and subtracting mixed numbers.
Please finish these questions. The answer must be reduced to lowest terms!

1. 3 2/5 + 6 1/5=
2. 4 2/5 + 1/10=
3. 2 3/12 + 2 3/6=
4. 5 3/9 + 2 1/3=
5. 7 5/6 + 3 1/18=
6. 5 3/4 + 7 2/6=

7. 3 - 1 8/12=
8. 5 - 2/8=
9. 2 5/8 - 1 1/8=
10. 5 7/9 - 2 1/3=
11. 4 5/6 - 1 1/12=
12. 3 3/4 - 12/9=

My answers:
1. 4 4/5
2. 4 5/10
3. 4 9/12
4. 7 6/9
5. 10 16/18
6. 13 2/24
7. 1 4/12
8. 4 6/8
9. 1 4/8
10. 3 4/9
11. 3 9/12
12. 2 15/36

User Icon for Ms. Sue Ms. Sue answered
13 years ago

I checked your first five answers and they are all wrong. For many of them you have not reduced them to lowest terms.

User Icon for Pratigya Pratigya answered
13 years ago

You must be mistaken because my answer is not 44/5 it is 4= 4 whole and then 4/5. Still if you think they are wrong then how can I fix them which ones do I have to reduce?

User Icon for Ms. Sue Ms. Sue answered
13 years ago

1. 3 2/5 + 6 1/5 = 9 3/5

This site shows you how to reduce or simplify fractions.

http://www.mathsisfun.com/simplifying-fractions.html

User Icon for Reiny Reiny answered
13 years ago

I started at the other end ...

#12 wrong
#11 , 3 9/12 = 3 3/4
#10 correct
#9 , 1 4/8 = 1 1/2
#8 , 4 6/8 = 4 3/4
#7 , 4 1/12 = 1 1/3
#6 , 13 2/24 = 13 1/12

I don't know where you got these questions, but most of them were not in lowest terms to begin with. That is very unconventional.
e.g. #3
2 2/13 + 2 3/6
should have been
2 1/4 + 2 1/2

At this point the result can be obtained mentally.

User Icon for Pratigya Pratigya answered
13 years ago

Ok i was wrong on the first one but the rest? I am pretty sure they are right.

User Icon for Ms. Sue Ms. Sue answered
13 years ago

Please study the site I posted. Then reduce numbers 2 through 5.

Reiny helped you on the others.

User Icon for Pratigya Pratigya answered
13 years ago

For number 7 its not 4 1/12 its 1 4/12. can you check number 5,4,3,2,1 as well.

User Icon for Pratigya Pratigya answered
13 years ago

answers for 12345:

1. 9 3/5
2. 4 1/2
3. 4 3/4
4. still 7 6/9
5. still 10 16/18

User Icon for Ms. Sue Ms. Sue answered
13 years ago

1 and 2 and 3 are correct. The other two are wrong.

User Icon for Schnitzel Schnitzel answered
13 years ago

Type them into WolframAlpha . com with a + sign between the whole number and its fraction.

For example,

3 2/5 + 6 1/5 becomes (3+2/5) + (6+1/5)
3 - 1 8/12 becomes (3) - (1+8/12)