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EXPLAIN WHY THE PRODUCT OF 1/2 AND7/8 IS LESS THEN 1/2​

User Derpoliuk
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Because of their decimals
User Eike
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Answer:

Let us use a real life situation for example.

Imagine a tasty pizza in front of you. Your parents decide to cut half for themselves, so you're left with 1/2 of the pizza.

Now imagine you have 7 siblings, and you want to share the pizza with everyone. Hence, to find how much pizza the siblings get, you take


(7)/(8) * (1)/(2)

which equals to 7/16, as your siblings took 7/16 of the entire pizza.

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