You glance over at your younger sibling doing homework and s

You glance over at your younger sibling doing homework and see the following: 8/17 + 3/17 = 11/34 Using the definition of fraction, how would you convince your sibling the answer should be 11/17.

Solution

8/17 + 3/17 = 11/34

Ok, so when we are looking at fractions for addition or subtraction

we need to make the denominators same and then add/subtract the numerator

Now in ou question we have both the fractions with same denominators

So, add the numerator and keep the denominator as same

8/17 + 3/17 = ( 8 +3)/17 = 11/17

So, 11/17 is the correct answer , and we made the mstake in denominator as 34