Lesson 3

In the Are You Ready? section, you added and subtracted rational numbers. The question remains: can you verbalize the steps involved in the calculation?

 

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Following are the worked-out steps for Use the words numerator, denominator, and rational numbers to describe the steps being followed.

 

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