SOLUTION: Please help me solve this equation: 3x/4 + 5x/2 = 13 I have tried to solve it three different ways, but I continue to have complications, I don't understand fractions at all.

You're like everybody else who takes algebra.  Nobody likes fractions.
But never fret, because there is a way to get rid of them all:

First put a 1 under the 13 so every term will be a fraction:



The denominators are 4, 2, and 1, and they will all divide
evenly into 4.  So we put 4 over 1 like this 
and multiply every term by  by writing  before each term:



Then we can have fun cancelling away all the denominators, except the 1's
which we can just erase:

       


Now we will have no denominators, and the resulting equation is so easy a
cave man can do it!:







Edwin