Question

Fanelli’s hardware stocks wooden dowels in the following widths: 3/16in., 3/8in., 1/4in., 1/2in., write these widths in order from smallest to largest.

Answer 1

Answer:3/16, 1/4,3/8,1/2

Explanation:

I just turned them into decimals and 3/16 had the lowest at .1875 then 1/4 at .25 and 3/8 at .375 then lastly 1/2 at .5

Answer 2

3/16, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2

Explanation:

For easy comparison, we can re-write all these fractions so the denominators are the same. By observation, we can see that the denominators 2,4 and 8 are all factors of the denominator 16, hence we can express all the fractions such that the denominators equal 16.

1/2 = 8/16

1/4 = 4/16

3/8 = 6/16

3/16 = (needs no re-writing)

Comparing the above, we can see that from smallest to largest:

3/16 , 4/16, 6/16, 8/16

or

3/16, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2