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Why dose it take 4 copies of 1 tenth to equal 2 copies of 1 fifth

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1/10 is half of 1/5 so it would take double the amount for 1/10 to equal 0.4
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1/10 is equal to .1 and 1/5 is equal to .2 which explains a little more on what was already given in the above comment
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