Question

In your class 0.58 of the students bring a piece of whole fruit for a snack and 0.36 of the students bring a snack pack of crackers. Which group of students brings in more food items for snack?

Answer 1

So an easier way to look at this is to think of the decimals as percentages, to convert these decimals to percentages we can multiply each by 100.

Which gives us 58% of students with fruit, and 36% students with crackers. We know that 58% is much larger than 36%, so more students bring fruit instead of crackers.