Karen was looking in her closet and noticed that 3/10 of her shirts were pink and 2/5 of her shirts were blue what fraction of the occurrence shirts are either pink or blue

Question

Karen was looking in her closet and noticed that 3/10 of her shirts were pink and 2/5 of her shirts were blue.What fraction of karen's shirts are either pink or blue?

Answer 1

Find a common denominator between 10 and 5 - the smallest number both divide evenly into

That would be 10.

Change 2/5 to have denominator 10, by multiplying numerator and denominator by 2:

2 * 2 = 4

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5 * 2 10

Now add 3/10 + 4/10 = (3 + 4)/10 = 7/10

Answer 2

Karen was looking in her closet and noticed that 3/10 of her shirts were pink and 2/5 of her shirts were blue.What fraction of karen's shirts are either pink or blue?

This problem is asking us to add fractions. We know what fraction are pink and what fraction are blue. To add fractions you need a common denominator. To do this, find the least common multiple of 5 and 10. In this case it is 10. Once you convert both fractions into tenths, add the numerators.