Emily went to get her hair cut. on her visit, emily had 2/5 of an inch cut off. she went back a second time and had 1/3 of an inch cut off. how much did emily have cut off altogether

Hello! For this question, we will be adding fractions. To do this, we will convert fractions by finding the LCD. It's like finding the LCM. A multiple is the product gotten from muliplying that number by another Let's list out the multiples.

3: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15
5: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25

As we can see, they both have a multiple of 15. The LCM is 15 and that number will be used as our denominator. Let's convert. 2/5 becomes 6/15 and 1/3 becomes 5/15. There. We've converted the fractions. Now, let's add. 6/15 + 5/15 is 11/15. There. Emily has cut off 11/15 of her hair altogether.