which is largest .500 9/15 .250 .750 7/8

Question

What  number is greater

Answer 1

The best approach to these type of questions are to put all the numbers in decimal format and put them all to the same amount of places after the decimal.

 

• .500 will remain as is
• 9/15 is .6 but to keep them all to the same amount of value we would say .600
• .250 would remain as is
• .750 would remain as is
• 7/8 would equal to .875

 

And now as you order them least to greatest you will find out that 7/8 would be the largest of them all

Answer 2

One way to tell is to convert them all to decimals:

 

• 0.500
• 9/15 = 0.600
• 0.250
• 0.750
• 7/8 = 0.875

 

Now can you pick out the largest one?