Adding Fractions

Please show your working for these questions.

Q1. What is 14 + 1
9 ?

(Please show your working in the working space

and place your answer in the answer space.)

Q2. What is 23 + 3
4 ?
Please show your working and leave your answer
as a top-heavy fraction.

Q3. A person added two fractions together neither

of which contained the number 14 but the answer
was 13
14 .

Write a sum of two fractions that they might have

used.

No need to include the = 13

14 in your answer, you just
need to write the sum of the two fractions.

Q4. A person added together two fractions to get 19 . 

Suggest a possible sum of two such fractions.

No need to include = 19 in your answer please, just

write the sum of the two fractions.
Q5. Which is larger 79 or 11
9
? 

Please explain your reasoning in the working space.

But your answer just needs to be one of the two
fractions.

Q6. What is 12 + 1
4 + 1
8 + 1
16 + 1
32 ?
Please show your working.

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