Verbal Reasoning - Arithmetic Reasoning - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Arithmetic Reasoning - Section 1 (Q.No. 3)
3.
An institute organised a fete and 1/5 of the girls and 1/8 of the boys participated in the same. What fraction of the total number of students took part in the fete ?
2/13
13/40
Data inadequate
None of these
Answer: Option
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Queen george said:   5 months ago
Very interesting. Thank you all.

Etsegenet Belete said:   5 days ago
List common dinominator(LCD) = 40
Convert the fraction to have a denominator
1/5 = 8/40,1/8 = 5/40
Add them, 8/40+5/40, take the common denominator.
8 + 5/40 = 13/40.


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