Final Of Mixed Number Example Special Edition. Find the lcm and then add. Suppose you have a set of baseball trading cards for your favorite team.
Suppose you have a set of baseball trading cards for your favorite team. If we wanted to change that back to an improper fraction we would have to. The entire collection is 17 17 or 1 whole.
What if a friend gives you a handful of additional trading cards.
Mixed numbers can be multiplied by first converting them to improper fractions. One card is 1 17 a fraction of the whole set. It is 17 cards. Let us see an example of the addition of mixed numbers with like denominators.