Solve the Fraction Addition: 2/5 + 3/5 Step-by-Step

Question

Solve the following exercise:

$\frac{2}{5}+\frac{3}{5}=\text{?}$

00:00 Solve

00:03 Let's divide our whole rectangle into 5 parts

00:10 Let's color the parts corresponding to each fraction

00:23 Let's combine all the colored parts and place in the numerator

00:30 And this is the solution to the question

To solve this problem, we will follow these steps:

Step 1: Identify the denominators of the fractions. Both $\frac{2}{5}$ and $\frac{3}{5}$ have the denominator 5.
Step 2: When adding fractions with the same denominator, we only need to add the numerators.
Step 3: Calculate $\frac{2}{5} + \frac{3}{5} = \frac{2 + 3}{5} = \frac{5}{5}$ .
Step 4: Simplify $\frac{5}{5}$ , which equals 1.

Therefore, the solution to the problem is 1.