Home More advice Education & School
How do you add fractions with unlike denominators?
I think you have to convert them all to the same denominator:
1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 3/16 = 8/16 + 4/16 + 2/16 + 3/16 = 17/16 = 1 & 1/16
Simply a Rose to brighten your day, And maybe lessen the cares in your way; And also, too, to help you to know, That in knowing you, many others grow!
you have to make them have the same denomninator.
if you had to add, lets say, 3/4 and 1/2, you would multiply the 1/2 by 2/2 to make it 2/4. then you can add them.
You need to find a common denominator
1/4 + 1/2 =
