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Explain a strategy I could use to compare 2/6 and 5/8

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You'd definitely want to convert 2/6 and 5/8 to equivalent fractions with the same denominator (which would be 24).

8/24 and 15/24 are easily compared: the 2nd is nearly twice the first.
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