You cut vegetables for a stew. You have 7/8 cup carrots, 1/3 cup onions, and 1/2 cup peppers. About how many cups of vegetabels do you have in all?

A about 1 cup

B about 2 cups

C about 3 cups

D about 1/2 cups

Question

You cut vegetables for a stew. You have 7/8 cup carrots, 1/3 cup onions, and 1/2 cup peppers. About how many cups of vegetabels do you have in all?

 A about 1 cup

 B about 2 cups

 C about 3 cups

 D about 1/2 cups

anonymous · Answer

You need to get a common denominator for all 3 of those

anonymous · Answer

Find the least common denominator of 8, 3, and 2

anonymous · Answer

Then multiply the top numbers by whatever you had to multiply the bottom ones to get to the common denominator

anonymous · Answer

The least common denominator is 24

anonymous · Answer

can you continue from that?

anonymous · Answer

still need more help

kamibug · Answer

Here are the fractions you need to add after they all have the same denominator.|dw:1418951283399:dw|
Just add all the numerators and keep the denominator as 24. What do you get?