Question

Which is larger 17/40 or 8/15

Answer 1

8/15

when you divide it it comes out to be 0.533 repeating

but when you divide 17/40 it comes out to be 0.425

so .5 is larger then .4

Answer 2

It's easier to figure it out when both fractions have the same denominator, so let's fix that:

17/40*15/15 is 255/600

8/15*40/40 is 320/600

Notice we are multiplying by a factor of 1 to get equivalent fractions

So 8/15 is bigger

Hope this helped!