IXL | Add, subtract, and multiply fractions and mixed numbers: word problems

Michelle collected 1/5 of a bin of glass bottles to recycle. Grace collected 8 times as many bins as Michelle. How many bins of bottles did Grace collect?

Simplify your answer and write it as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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While making pastries, a bakery used 1/10 of a bag of wheat flour and 3/10 of a bag of white flour. How many bags of flour did the bakery use in all?

Simplify your answer and write it as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.

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solution

Find the amount of flour the bakery used by adding 1/10 and 3/10.

Add the numerators:

Write the answer in simplest form. Divide both the numerator and the denominator by 2.

The bakery used 2/5 of a bag of flour.

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