is -1/8 bigger or less than -2/11?

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Guest Dec 11, 2014

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Write it on a form in which you have common denominator. The left fraction has a prime number as a denominator, so we get:

- 1/8 = - 11/88 and - 2/11 = - 16/88

We see that - 11/88 > - 16/88, and hence - 1/8 > -2/11

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Guest · Answer 1 · 2014-12-11T11:55:55

Write it on a form in which you have common denominator. The left fraction has a prime number as a denominator, so we get:

- 1/8 = - 11/88 and - 2/11 = - 16/88

We see that - 11/88 > - 16/88, and hence - 1/8 > -2/11

Guest · Answer 2 · 2014-12-11T11:48:55

-1/8 is bigger

jbow4 · Answer 3 · 2014-12-12T01:45:24

It is larger because it is closer to one.