Solve the following problem: Asia walks 2 1/4 miles to the park and then another 1 6/8 miles to her friends house. How many miles does she walk in all

Answer 1

To solve this problem, we need to add the distances Asia walks to the park and her friend's house together.

Asia walks 2 1/4 miles to the park.
Asia walks another 1 6/8 miles to her friend's house.

We can add these distances together by converting the mixed fractions to improper fractions, then finding a common denominator and adding the numerators:

2 1/4 = (8 * 2 + 1) / 4 = 17/4

1 6/8 = (8 * 1 + 6) / 8 = 14/8

Now, we need to find a common denominator, which is 8. We can multiply the numerator and denominator of 17/4 by 2, so that the denominator becomes 8:

(17 * 2) / (4 * 2) = 34/8

Now we can add the two fractions:

34/8 + 14/8 = (34 + 14) / 8 = 48/8

Since 48/8 can be simplified to 6, Asia walks a total of 6 miles.