Solve the following problem: Asia walks 2 1/4 miles to the park and then another 1 6/8 miles to her friends house. How many miles does she walk in all
To solve this problem, we need to add the distances Asia walks to the park and her friend's house together.
Asia walks 2 1/4 miles to the park.
Asia walks another 1 6/8 miles to her friend's house.
We can add these distances together by converting the mixed fractions to improper fractions, then finding a common denominator and adding the numerators:
2 1/4 = (8 * 2 + 1) / 4 = 17/4
1 6/8 = (8 * 1 + 6) / 8 = 14/8
Now, we need to find a common denominator, which is 8. We can multiply the numerator and denominator of 17/4 by 2, so that the denominator becomes 8:
(17 * 2) / (4 * 2) = 34/8
Now we can add the two fractions:
34/8 + 14/8 = (34 + 14) / 8 = 48/8
Since 48/8 can be simplified to 6, Asia walks a total of 6 miles.