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Is 1/5 bigger than 1/8

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Yes, 1/5 is bigger than 1/8.
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Yes because the pieces would be smaller. When doing that you are dividing 2 things that are the same size into different numbers of pieces. The 1/5 pieces are smaller because you had to divide that thing into a smaller number of things, so the pieces would be bigger

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