document.write( "Question 751177: Solve 3/5+m/24 I missed alot of school & idk how to do these problems \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "The other tutor though you meant \"solve the equation\"\r\n" );
document.write( "when you actually meant \"simplify the expression\",\r\n" );
document.write( "or \"add (or combine) the fractions\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "We want to turn those two added fractions into just \r\n" );
document.write( "one single fraction:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Those two fractions have different denominators.\r\n" );
document.write( "Before we can add them, they have to have the same\r\n" );
document.write( "denominators.  So we change them so they will have\r\n" );
document.write( "the same common denominator.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The two different denominators are 5 and 24.\r\n" );
document.write( "Since there is no whole number except 1 that goes \r\n" );
document.write( "into both of them, we can find the LCD by multiplying\r\n" );
document.write( "them together: 5×24 = 120.  That's the LCD.\r\n" );
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document.write( "To make the denominator 5 become the denominator \r\n" );
document.write( "120 we multiply top and bottom of that fraction by 24.\r\n" );
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document.write( "To make the denominator 24 become the denominator \r\n" );
document.write( "120 we  multiply top and bottom by 5. \r\n" );
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document.write( "We do both of those\r\n" );
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document.write( "That becomes:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now we indicate the addition of the numerators over\r\n" );
document.write( "the common denominator 120:\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's the final answer because now there is only one \r\n" );
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