Help, and if you could also show how you did it

Add the fractions and simplify 1/2+ 1/3

Yolanda wanted to buy a total of 6 pounds of mixed nuts and dried fruit for a party she paid 21.60 for mixed nuts and 11.90 for dried fruit did yolanda but enough mixed nuts and dried fruit for the party

Paul needs to buy 5/8 pound of peanuts. measure a pound into sixteenths. what measure is equivalent to 5/8 pound