Question

You have prizes to reveall Go to your game board. *On a hot day, Gordon poured 2 buckets of water into a plastic wading pool. A few minuteslater he added another 4/5 of a bucket. How much water did Gordon pour into the pool?Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

Answer 1

Gordon put 2 buckets of water and then 4/5 of a bucket of water.

If you add them you get that

The 2 buckets represent "wholes", you can express them as fractions, using the same denominator as the given fraction.

1 whole can be expressed as 5/5

2 wholes is then 10/5

Now add both measures:

$\frac{10}{5}+\frac{4}{5}=\frac{10+4}{5}=\frac{14}{5}$

You can express the answer

$\frac{14}{5}\text{ or 2}\frac{4}{5}$

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