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Your mum has saved £12,000 and has agreed to give you a share. Would you rather have 1 5 or 1 10 ?

User HXH
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Do you possibly mean 1/5 and 1/10?
If so, (if you wanted more money) you would choose 1/5.
Explanation: To compare both fractions it is wise to give them both the same denominator (bottom number). We can see that 5 is half of 10. To make the 5 equal a 10, we would need to multiply 1/5 by 2. Remember that you need to multiply the 1 (numerator) as well.
That gives 2/10.
This process can make it easier to see that 2/10 is larger than 1/10.

I hope I interpreted your question right :)
User Fabio Menegazzo
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i think everyone would rather have 110. I don't really get your question, but i guess most ppl would want the larger amount of money
User Rijin
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