How do you compare each pair of fractions with <, > or = given #3/8, 2/5#?
1 Answer
Mar 15, 2018
Explanation:
I remember the < and > signs with what a teacher once told me - think of them as a fish's mouth. It can only eat once and it wants to eat as much as possible, so the open end will "eat" the bigger amount.
So which is bigger,
One way to do this is to find a common denominator (it's 40), so let's convert the fractions:
