emma has a small garden. Emma's garden is
1/5beans 1/8 piece & 1/2 corn. the rest is planted with flowers.
what fraction of Emma's garden is planted with vegetables
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.2 beans + .125 peas(I suspect) + .5 corn
is .2+.125+.5 = .825 is vegetables
or LCD is 40
8/40 + 5/40 + 20/40 = 33/40 = 33/40
by the way, 33/40 = .825 :)
Hey nina, you are wasting our time :(
To determine the fraction of Emma's garden that is planted with vegetables, we need to add up the fractions of the different vegetables she has planted and then find the sum of those fractions.
Emma has 1/5 of her garden planted with beans, 1/8 of her garden planted with peas, and 1/2 of her garden planted with corn. To find the fraction of the garden planted with vegetables, we need to add these fractions together:
1/5 + 1/8 + 1/2
To do this, we need to find a common denominator for these fractions. The least common multiple (LCM) of 5, 8, and 2 is 40, so we can rewrite the fractions with a denominator of 40:
8/40 + 5/40 + 20/40
Now we can add the fractions together:
(8 + 5 + 20) / 40
33 / 40
Therefore, 33/40 of Emma's garden is planted with vegetables.