Jason drove 8 4/5 miles to a subway station. He then 15 /6 miles by taxi to attend a meeting. How many total miles did he travel?

Option A: (23 + 29/30) miles

Step-by-step explanation:

Here we just need to add two mixed numbers.

(8 + 4/5) miles and (15 + 1/6) miles.

To add these, we just separate between the whole part and the fraction part:

(8 + 4/5) miles + (15 + 1/6) miles

= (8 + 4/5 + 15 + 1/6) miles

= (8 + 15 + 4/5 + 1/6) miles

= (23 + 4/5 + 1/6) miles

Now we need to find a common multiple between 6 and 5.

So, only analyzing the fraction part of the sum, we can rewrite:

4/5 + 1/6

= 4/5*(6/6) + 1/6*(5/5)

(notice that we are multiplying both numbers by one, so we do not change the expression's value)

= (4*6)/(5*6) + (1*5)/(6*5)

= 24/30 + 5/30

So now both fractions have the same denominator.

Then, replacing that in the sum equation we get:

(23 + 4/5 + 1/6) miles =  (23 + 24/30 + 5/30) miles

= (23 + 29/30) miles

Then the correct option is option A.

1. 3.4/4

2. 0.8/7

3. 0.5 x 3

4. 0.9 x 6

5. 10.8

6. 2.35

7. 0.567

8. 9.35

9. 0.02

10. 0.06

11. 0.16

12. 0.42

13. 0.63

14. 5.6

15. 8.1

16. 9.9

17. 0.28

18. 0.48

19. 0.27

20. 0.49

21. 0.45

22. 0.72

23. 0.9

24. 0.88

25. 0.75

26. 0.16

27. 0.328

28. 0.495

29. 0.72

30. 1.068