Question

How do you write these numbers in order from least to greatest: 0.65, 2/3, 3/5, 0.5?

Answer 1

`color(red)((0.5, 0.6, 0.65, 0.67)` or `color(brown)((0.5, 3/5, 0.65, 2/3)`

Explanation:

Given : `0.65, 2/3, 3/5,0.5`. To arrange the numbers in ascending order.

For this type of problems, either we should convert all the numbers to fractions or decimals and then arrange them in the ascending order.

Let’s first change all numbers to decimal.

`2/3 =( 2/3) * (100/100) = 200/300 = 0.67`

`3/5 = (3/5) * (2/2) = 6/10 = 0.6`

The numbers are `0.65, 0.67, 0.60, 0.50` as `color(blue)(0.50 = 0.5, 0.60 = 0.6`

Numbers in the ascending order

`color(red)((0.5, 0.6, 0.65, 0.67)` or `color(brown)((0.5, 3/5, 0.65, 2/3)`