MIXED OPERATIONS WITH FRactions

MIXED OPERATIONS WITH FRACTIONS

by La-Tanya Joseph

​What do we remember about fractions?

​Sometimes we may encounter questions that require us to do more than just adding and subracting.... Let's look at an example

​Lets start off simple.

• ​Ellen planned to interview some applicants for a position in her office. If she scheduled 1/4 of an hour to meet each of them, how much time did she schedule for all 6 applicants?

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• ​Instead of 1/4 of an hour, Ellen spent 1/3 of an hour to meet each applicant. How much more time did she spend meeting all the applicants?

​now you try!!

​Ethan decides to type up some documents while waiting for the meeting to start. He can type 2 pages every 1/ 8 hour. If the meeting started 3/ 4 hour later than the scheduled time, how many pages can he type before the meeting starts?