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Which is greater 4/5 or 13/15

User Peuczynski
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4/5 or 13/15.
Let us try to make the bottom of the first fraction to be 15, by multiplying the bottom 5 by 3, and of course we would multiply the top also.

(4/5)*(3/3) = 12/15

So we are now comparing: 12/15 and 13/15

We can see that 13/15 is greater, because it has a higher numerator.

So 13/15 is greater than 4/5


OR

4/5 13/15 Cross Multiply

4*15 13*5

60 65

60 < 65

Implies that 4/5 is less than 13/15 and hence 13/15 is greater than 4/5.


OR

Use your calculator and convert both to decimal

45 13/15

0.80 0.8667

You can see that 13/15 is greater than 4/5.
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