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Order from least to greatest -5/2 1.7 -2

User Sheehan
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-5/2, -2, 1.7

negatives are less than positives so they’re first, and the bigger negative number has a lesser value than the smaller negative number, because the smaller negative number is closer to a positive number or 0 than the bigger negative number.
User Deep Frozen
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-5/2 -2 1.7 you just put the improper fractuon into standard and its -2.5 so thats the least
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