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Jane and Scott were given identical boxes of crayons. Two weeks later, Jane had 4/9 of her box left and Scott had 3/7 of his box left. Who had more crayons left?

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I do believe Jane is going to have more Crayons left.
In this problem we can see that Jane has 4/9 of a box left, this means that if we convert it into a fraction with like terms with 3/7 we can do a comparison.

The only numbers 7 and nine share is 63 so we can convert the denominators to fractions of 63.

If we do so 4/9 (multiply both sides by 7) changes that to 28/63

3/7 (multiply both sides by 9) changes that to 27/63
Since Jane has 28 out of 63 crayons left and Scott has 27 out of 63 then Jane has more.
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Jane had more crayons

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