Quinton and Hunter are biking on trails in Katy Trail State Park. They biked 5/6 miles in the morning and 5/8 miles in the afternoon. Did they bike a greater distance in the morning or in the afternoon?

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Ayaan Simmons

Mathematics

30 November, 16:16

Quinton and Hunter are biking on trails in Katy Trail State Park. They biked 5/6 miles in the morning and 5/8 miles in the afternoon. Did they bike a greater distance in the morning or in the afternoon?

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Olive Yang · Answer 1

All you have to do is find a least common multiple for 6 and 8 in this case it would be 24 because 6's multiples are 6,12,18,24 and 8's multiples are 8,16,24 and many more but these are the lcm so in it would be

morning - 20/24

and

afternoon - 15/24

the answer is the morning