Adding Fractions

During lunch, Julio drinks 2  3/4 cups of milk.  Alan drinks 3/8 cups of milk.  Fernando drinks 1  1/6 cups of milk.  How much milk do the 3 gentleman drink? 

• 4  7/24 cups

• 3  7/32 cups

• 4  7/32 cups 

• 3  7/24 cups

Rachel spent 1/3 of her allowance on a new book and 2/5 of her allowance on some pencils. How much of her allowance did she spend?

• 2/15 of her allowance

• 3/8 of her allowance

• 11/15 of her allowance

Oliver and Charlie are eating from the same box of cereal. Oliver eats 2/12 of the box and Charlie eats 2/6 of the box. How much of the cereal do they eat together? Simplify the fraction.

• 1/3 of the box of cereal

• 4/18 of the box of cereal

• 1/2 of the box of cereal

Is this a correct answer?

• Yes, the student correctly added.

• No, you cannot add unlike denominators

• No, 5 + 7 is not 12

• No, 2 + 3 is not 5

Jada ate 3/8 of a pizza and Isaiah ate 1/4 of the pizza. How much pizza did they eat in all?

• 1/2

• 5/8

• 3/4

• 7/8

My sister and I ate some of the cookies she made. She ate 3/5 of them and I ate 1/10 of them. How much of the cookies did we eat?

• 1/2 of the cookies

• 7/10 of the cookies

• 4/15 of the cookies

5/12 + 1/3

• 6/12

• 9/12

• 6/15

• 3/4

1/3 + 1/9

• 4/9

• 9/12

• 6/15

• 3/12

1/4 +3/8

• 4/8

• 1/2

• 5/8

• 1

7/18 + 1/3

• 8/18

• 13/18

• 8/21

• 2/6