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Is 1/4 greater or is 5/4 grater

User Urgen
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Answer:

5/4

Explanation:

It may help you to rewrite 1/4 and 5/4 as mixed decimal fractions:

0.25 and 1.25. Obviously 1.25 is larger.

Since 1/4 and 5/4 have the same denominator, 4, you can answer this question by focusing on the numerators, 1 and 5. Again, the second one is the larger (greater).

User Hitesh Garg
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Answer: 5/4

Explanation:

if two number have the same denominator, then the number with the greatest numerator is the greatest.

Basically if the bottom number of two fractions are the same, the bigger top number is the bigger number.

User Lordoku
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