Adding fraction when they do have unlike denominators, it may be tricky, but after making the denominator to be the same, then the addition will be a snap. By working using the improper denominators, you should turn them to become improper faction and to make every one of the fraction to be equivalent. It makes everything easy to add the fraction afterwards.
2. WORKING ON THE IMPROPER FRACTION
Start by finding least common multiple or LCM for a denominator. This is
because it is important to ensure that the denominator is the same and to add
the fraction afterwards, finding the common multiple which they are sharing
and then go for the lowest.
3. MULTIPLY A NUMERATOR WITH
THE DENOMINATOR IN ORDER
TO GET DENOMINATORS THAT
LOOK ALIKE. IT IS IMPORTANT
TO MULTIPLY AN ENTIRE
FRACTION IN ORDER TO MAKE
DENOMINATORS WHICH MAY
BECOME A LEAST COMMON
MULTIPLE.
4. TURN ANOTHER FRACTION IN ITS EQUIVALENT FRACTION
AND THEN REMEMBER THAT IF YOU ADJUST 1 FRACTION IN
THE PROBLEM, YOU WILL NEED TO ADJUST ALL OTHER
FRACTION SO THAT THEY MAY BECOME THE EQUIVALENT
OF THE ORIGINAL TASK.
5. YOU CAN ADD THE NUMERATOR; HOWEVER, YOU SHOULD LEAVE
A DENOMINATOR ALONE. WHEN THE DENOMINATORS HAVE
BECOME THE SAME, YOU SHOULD ADD NUMERATORS AND PUT
AN ANSWER OF A DENOMINATOR.
6. SIMPLIFY OR REDUCE AN
ANSWER WHEN NEEDED: WHEN
THE ANSWER IS NOT PROPER, IT
IS EASY TO TURN A FRACTION
IN THE MIXED NUMBER. IN
DOING THIS, THE PERSON
SHOULD DIVIDE A NUMERATOR
USING A DENOMINATOR IN
ORDER TO GET THE WHOLE
NUMBER.
7. HE CAN THEN SEE THE
NUMBER OF THE PARTS
WHICH HAD BEEN LEFT AND
THEN PLACE SUCH NUMBER
OVER A DENOMINATOR. A
REDUCED FRACTION WILL
BE SIMPLIFIED EVEN
FURTHER.
9. LOOK FOR A LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR WHEN
NEEDED: IF THE DENOMINATOR IS THE NOT THE SAME, THE
USER WILL HAVE TO WRITE DOWN DIFFERENT MULTIPLES
OF EVERY DENOMINATOR IN ORDER TO FIND THE NUMBER
THAT THEY ARE HAVING IN COMMON.
10. IT IS GOOD TO MAKE A FRACTION
EQUIVALENT IN ORDER TO CHANGE
ITS DENOMINATORS. THE
DENOMINATOR HAS TO BECOME
LOWEST COMMON MULTIPLE
WHICH YOU CAN FIND. THE WHOLE
FRACTION HAS TO BE MULTIPLIED
BY A CERTAIN NUMBER TO GET THE
DENOMINATOR TO BECOME
COMMON MULTIPLE BUT THE
LOWEST POSSIBLE.
11. CHANGING OF THE FRACTION WITHIN THE PROBLEM IN ORDER TO
MAKE IT BE EQUIVALENT. WHEN ANOTHER FACTION IN THE
EQUATION HAS MANY DENOMINATORS, THE USER HAS TO MULTIPLY
THEM SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE THE SAME DENOMINATOR. WHEN
THE FRACTION HAS ITS OWN DENOMINATOR, YOU SHOULD NOT
ADJUST ITS FRACTION.
12. ADD A NUMERATOR SO THAT
THE DENOMINATOR CAN
CONTINUE TO BE ONE: WHEN
THE DENOMINATOR IS THE
SAME, THEN IT IS THE RIGHT
TIME TO ADD ONLY THE
NUMERATORS LEAVING ALONE
THE DENOMINATORS.