Question

Samuel is 5/8 inch taller than Jackie, Shelly is 0.7 inch taller than Jackie, Craig is 1/2 inch taller than Jackie, who is the tallest?

Answer 1

If you would like to know who is the tallest, you can calculate this using the following steps:

Jackie ... j
Samuel: 5/8 inch + j = 5/8 + j = 0.625 + j
Shelly: 0.7 inch + j = 0.7 + j
Craig: 1/2 inch + j = 1/2 + j = 0.5 + j

The correct result would be: Shelly is the tallest.