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Calvin and hobbes are making snowballs to throw at suzi calvin made 3/7 of the snowballs and hobbes made 8/14 of the snowballs who mae more snowballs in fractions

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recalculate 3/7 to have the same denominator as 8/14 ( 14)

so multiply both top and bottom by 2. 3/7 becomes 6/14

8/14 - 6/14 = 2/14 reduces to 1/7

Hobbes made more snowballs by 1/7

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recalculate 3/7 to have the same denominator as 8/14 ( 14)

so multiply both top and bottom by 2. 3/7 becomes 6/14

8/14 - 6/14 = 2/14 reduces to 1/7

Hobbes made more snowballs by 1/7

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