Can someone help me out with this question

**Retiredyoung24@yahoo.com** · October 23rd 2006, 11:35 AM

To add numbers with different denominators, a student is consistently using the product of the denominators as a common denominator. Is this correct? Why or why not? Give an example to support your answer

**earboth** · October 23rd 2006, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Retiredyoung24@yahoo.com

To add numbers with different denominators, a student is consistently using the product of the denominators as a common denominator. Is this correct? Why or why not? Give an example to support your answer

Hi,

let the two fractions be: $\frac{a}{b}\ \text{and}\ \frac{c}{d}$

$b\neq 0\ and\ d\neq 0$

The sum becomes then:

$\frac{a}{b}+ \frac{c}{d}=\frac{a\cdot d}{b\cdot d}+ \frac{c\cdot b}{d\cdot b}=\frac{ad+bc}{bd}$

The numerator and denominator of this result might be large numbers but the result itself is always correct.

EB

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