Gordon put 2 buckets of water and then 4/5 of a bucket of water.
If you add them you get that
The 2 buckets represent "wholes", you can express them as fractions, using the same denominator as the given fraction.
1 whole can be expressed as 5/5
2 wholes is then 10/5
Now add both measures:
[tex]\frac{10}{5}+\frac{4}{5}=\frac{10+4}{5}=\frac{14}{5}[/tex]
You can express the answer
[tex]\frac{14}{5}\text{ or 2}\frac{4}{5}[/tex]
Buckets of water
