Answer:
13 / 20
Step-by-step explanation:
1. Add 2/5 + 1/4 = 2· 4/5 · 4 + 1 · 5/4 · 5 = 8/20 + 5/20 = 8 + 5/20 = 13/20
For adding, subtracting, and comparing fractions, it is suitable to adjust both fractions to a common (equal, identical) denominator. The common denominator you can calculate as the least common multiple of both denominators - LCM(5, 4) = 20. In practice, it is enough to find the common denominator (not necessarily the lowest) by multiplying the denominators: 5 × 4 = 20. In the following intermediate step, the fraction result cannot be further simplified by canceling.
In other words - two fifths plus one quarter = thirteen twentieths.
