Name: Parts of a Whole
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 6 min 14 s
Description: In this short lesson you'll learn how diagonals and fractions can help you understand how to make or divide parts from a whole. Check it out!

Question

Compare the given fractions.

$\frac{3}{8} \frac{5}{8}$

Accepted Answer

Given,

Fractions are:

$\frac{3}{8}, \frac{5}{8}$

We, need to colour and represent the above fractions in the given image and also compare them using the symbols.

We know that,

The top number in the fraction is numerator and the bottom number in the fraction is denominator.

Here, the numerator is $3$ and the denominator is $8$ .

In the fraction, numerator represents the number of coloured parts and denominator represents the total number of parts.

So, we have to shade any $3$ parts out of $8$ parts as shown, below,

Similarly, for the fraction $\frac{5}{8}$ we represent it as,

The given fractions are like fractions since their denominators are the same.

Thus, comparing the numerators we see that,

$3 < 5$

Hence, the above given fractions are shaded and $\frac{3}{8} < \frac{5}{8}$ .

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