Question

Layla wrote a report on insects. She listed the lengths of a tiger beetles, carpenter ants, and aphids. The lengths were 1/2 inch, 5/8 inch, and 1/8 inch. A tiger beetle is bigger than a carpenter ant. A carpenter ant is bigger than an aphid. Lis the sizes of each insect!

Answer 1

First we would change the fractions into decimals and compare them. That way it would be easy to solve when needed.

1/2=0.50
5/8=0.625
1/8=0.125

Now we can see that 1/8 (0.125) is the smallest, followed by 1/2 (0.50), and 5/8 the largest. Now we can match the sizes with the insects.

Since the tiger beetle is the largest we will place that with the length of 5/8 since that is the largest.

The carpenter ant is second largest so it would be matched with 1/2

The aphid is the smallest so that would be with 1/8 as the smallest

*Hope that helped :D*