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achavez505
Feb 20, 2012, 11:08 PM
I got the common denominator, which was 27, I came up with 39/27, and then I divided 39 by 27 which I got 1.44, I'm having a problem estimating,

ojasdoshi
Feb 27, 2012, 10:05 PM
The LCM of the denominators 3 and 9 is 9 itself. Hence the 2nd fraction can be represented as 6/9.
Thus the sum would be 7+6/9 = 13/9 = 1 + 4/9 = 1.44
Similarly, the difference would be 7-6/9 = 1/9 = 0.11...