Question

Add and simplify: a+2/ 3 + a+2/ 4

Answer 1

Is that:
\[\frac{a+2}{3}+\frac{a+2}{4}\]

Answer 2

yea :)

Answer 3

im confused on how to solve it

Answer 4

When you're adding fractions, you need to have the denominators be the same.

Remember that anything times 1 equals itself: X*1=X

Now since 1 can be written as (1/1) or (2/2) or 3/3), etc., you can rewrite the equation above like so:

\[(1*\frac{a+2}{3}) + (1*\frac{a+2}{4})\]

Answer 5

so what do u do after that? I'm still lost :/

Answer 6

Turn each 1 into a fraction so that when you multiply it out, the bases are the same.