How To Add Ruler Fractions

you already know how to represent fractionsusing drawings. in this lesson you'll learn to add or subtracttwo fractions using drawings. for example, suppose you wanted add the fractionsone-fifth and two-fifths. to do this, we first show each of the fractionswith a drawing. next, we combine all of the parts together.the first fraction is one-fifth.

How To Add Ruler Fractions, so we want to add one-fifth to our answer. we add each fifth to our answer by clickingon an empty space. the second fraction is two-fifths. so we want to add two more fifths to our answer,like this.

so, one-fifth plus two-fifths is equal tothree-fifths.