Brian's team practiced soccer for of an hour on Wednesday, and for of an hour on Friday. His team practiced _________hours for soccer altogether.

The correct answer is:

Step1: First we will write all the fractions and then we will write the denominator and then we will use prime factorization method to add the fraction.
Fractions are: and .
In this question the denominators are  and .
Factors of  are:
Factors of  are:
Step2:  For calculating the LCM we will multiply the factors by considering the common factors only one time with the highest exponent.
In this case the factor  is common in both  and  so we will multiply it only once with the highest exponent
LCM (,) = 
LCM (,) = 
Step3: Now what we do is divide the LCM by each denominator and multiply the numerator by quotient and then add them
So, 
and 
So, we will multiply the numerator of  by  and numerator of  by .

So, Brian's team practiced a total of   which is equivalent to  of hours as both numerator and denominator are divisible by 3.