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Inventory Audit: Standard Procedure for Summing Cargo Weights

You are working as a logistics coordinator at a regional shipping hub. During an inventory audit, you find two partial pallets of eco-friendly packaging materials. One pallet is 712\frac{7}{12} full, and the other is 1115\frac{11}{15} full. Your supervisor asks you to write a step-by-step mathematical explanation for the trainee operations manual to demonstrate how to calculate the total combined pallet quantity:

712+1115\frac{7}{12} + \frac{11}{15}

Write a short training guide that explains the exact procedure to add these two fractions. In your guide, you must recall and clearly outline:

  1. The method for finding the Least Common Denominator (LCD) of the fractions, including the prime factorizations of both denominators (12 and 15).
  2. How to convert both 712\frac{7}{12} and 1115\frac{11}{15} into equivalent fractions using the LCD.
  3. How to perform the final addition, and why the resulting fraction 7960\frac{79}{60} cannot be simplified any further.

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