SOLUTION: Sparkling Bubbles Car Wash uses wheel cleaner spray that comes in 1 and 1/2 gallon containers. On Monday, the car wash used 3 and 1/6 containers, and 2 and 5/8 containers on the

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Question 1208321: Sparkling Bubbles Car Wash uses wheel cleaner spray that comes in 1 and 1/2
gallon containers. On Monday, the car wash used 3 and 1/6 containers, and 2 and
5/8 containers on the following day. How many total gallons of wheel cleaner did the car wash use on both days?

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!



Change to improper fractions:





Reduce  to  by dividing top and bottom by 3
or you could have canceled in the preceding step.



The least common denominator of 4 and 16 is 16

Make the denominator in the first fraction become 16,
by multiplying by 4/4







     8
16)139
   128
    11

Answer 

Edwin

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