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# JFractionLab - Help

## Adding fractions

### Explanation:

| What do you get? ... Mmmh ... A large piece and a small piece? .... Mmmh ...
| Here it is easy. The result is "three pieces"!

We can only add pieces together, that are the same size.
So, first we have to find a common denominator and convert all fractions.

### Steps:

- find the common denominator
- convert the fractions to the common denominator
- add the numerators
- if necessary reduce them
- if necessary change the improper fraction into whole numbers

### A step by step example:

| These fractions don't have a common denominator, so to add them, we will first have to find a common denominator.
| Here you can see, how we have done this..
| This is the result you get.
| We can now add these two fractions together.
| What we have to do now is change this improper fraction into a mixed number.

This is what it would look like in the JFractionLab.
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