Your neighborhood would like to raise funds to update the equipment in the neighborhood park they hold a bake sale and raise 3/8 of the desired funds and then have a neighborhood a yard sale and raise another one forth what is the total fractional amount of the funds they have raised

Answer 1

To find the total fractional amount of the funds raised, we need to add the fractions representing each source of funds.

The fraction raised from the bake sale is 3/8.
The fraction raised from the yard sale is 1/4.

To add these fractions, we need to find a common denominator. The least common multiple of 8 and 4 is 8. So, we can rewrite the fractions as follows:

3/8 = 3 * 1/8
1/4 = 2 * 1/8

Now, we can add the fractions:

3/8 + 2/8 = 5/8

Therefore, the total fractional amount of funds raised is 5/8.