You can put this solution on YOUR website! You need to rewrite the question. I think you forgot to say what it was equal to. Just respond to this with the question written correctly and I'll help you out.
The other tutor though you meant "solve the equation"
when you actually meant "simplify the expression",
or "add (or combine) the fractions".
We want to turn those two added fractions into just
one single fraction:
Those two fractions have different denominators.
Before we can add them, they have to have the same
denominators. So we change them so they will have
the same common denominator.
The two different denominators are 5 and 24.
Since there is no whole number except 1 that goes
into both of them, we can find the LCD by multiplying
them together: 5×24 = 120. That's the LCD.
To make the denominator 5 become the denominator
120 we multiply top and bottom of that fraction by 24.
To make the denominator 24 become the denominator
120 we multiply top and bottom by 5.
We do both of those
That becomes:
Now we indicate the addition of the numerators over
the common denominator 120:
That's the final answer because now there is only one
fraction.
Edwin
