jai and kim need to collect cans of food for a food drive jai collects 65/100 of the total cans needed kim collects 2/10 of the total cans needed. what fraction of the total number of cans did they collect altogether?
1. 85/100
2. 63/200
3. 45/100
4. 67/100
To solve this problem, we need to add the fractions that represent the number of cans each person collected.
Jai collected 65/100 of the total cans needed, which can be simplified to 13/20.
Kim collected 2/10 of the total cans needed, which can be simplified to 1/5.
Now we can add the fractions:
13/20 + 1/5
To add these fractions, we need to find a common denominator. The smallest number that 20 and 5 both divide into is 20, so we can rewrite the fractions with a common denominator of 20.
13/20 + 4/20
Now we can add the numerators:
13 + 4 = 17
The fraction representing the total number of cans they collected is 17/20.
Therefore, the answer is not listed among the given options.