Mary spent 3/5 if her pocket money buying sweets 1/2bbuying fruits. What fraction of her pocket money did she spend
3/5 + 1/2 > 1
There is no way she could have spent more than she had.
Now, if she spent 3/5 on sweets (leaving 2/5)
and then 1/2 of what was left on fruits, then she spent 1/5 on fruits.
3/5 + 1/5 = 4/5
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To find the fraction of her pocket money that Mary spent, we need to add the fractions representing the amount she spent on sweets and fruits.
Mary spent 3/5 buying sweets and 1/2 buying fruits.
To add these fractions, we need a common denominator. The smallest common denominator for 5 and 2 is 10.
Now, let's convert the fractions to have a denominator of 10.
3/5 = 6/10 (by multiplying the numerator and denominator by 2)
1/2 = 5/10 (by multiplying the numerator and denominator by 5)
Now we can add the fractions:
6/10 + 5/10 = 11/10
However, since Mary cannot spend more than her total pocket money, the answer cannot be more than 1 or 10/10.
Therefore, Mary spent 10/10 or her entire pocket money.
To find the fraction of Mary's pocket money that she spent, we need to add the fractions representing the amount she spent on sweets and fruits.
Mary spent 3/5 of her pocket money on sweets and 1/2 on fruits.
To add fractions, we need a common denominator. The least common multiple of 5 and 2 is 10.
To convert the fractions to have a common denominator of 10, we can multiply the numerator and denominator by the same number.
For the fraction 3/5, we can multiply both the numerator and denominator by 2 to get 6/10.
For the fraction 1/2, we can multiply both the numerator and denominator by 5 to get 5/10.
Now we can add the fractions:
6/10 + 5/10 = 11/10
The fraction 11/10 represents the portion of Mary's pocket money that she spent. However, it is greater than 1 (a whole), which doesn't make sense in this context since it's asking for a fraction of her pocket money.
To simplify the fraction, we can divide the numerator by the denominator:
11 ÷ 10 = 1 remainder 1
So the simplified fraction is 1 1/10, which means Mary spent 1 and 1/10 (or 11/10) of her pocket money.