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Explain how you can tell, without computing, whether the quotient one -half divided into 6 is greater than one or less than one

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If you take 1/2 of a pizza and divide it up between 6 people, will you have more than 1 whole Pizza or less than 1 whole pizza?

If you divide up a fraction into smaller pieces it will always be less than 1 because it started out less than 1 and you're making it even smaller.
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