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How can you tell without computing whether the quoient 1/2 divided 6 greater 1 or less than 1

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((1)/(2))/(6)

the number 1/2 is 0.5, if we divide a number less than 1 betweeen a number greater than 1 the solution must be a number less than 1, ebcause ouar dividing a small number between a big value

solving

we can rewrite the equation like

where green multiplication is the new numberator and red the new denominator, thenl

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