At the local nursery, 5/12 of the plants for sale are flowers and another 1/8 of them are bushes. What fraction of the plants for sale are either flowers or bushes? Write your answer as a fraction that is simplified. *

of the plants for sale are either flowers or bushes.

Step-by-step explanation:

After a careful reading, we conclude that the key part of the statement is: What fraction of the plants for sale are either flowers or bushes? Inside that question, we find the logical operator or, which is equivalent to a sum in algebraic language.

Let be and the fractions of flowers and bushes to be sold at the local nursery. Then, question above is translated into the following expression:

(Eq. 1)

Where is the fraction of plants for sale that are either flowers or bushes, dimensionless.

If we know that and , then the fraction of plants for sale that are either flowers or bushes is:

of the plants for sale are either flowers or bushes.

x+y = 29, 5x + 2y = 100

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i'm guessing it was a multiple first option was the correct answer

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