lily ran 2/3. Sara ran 1/3. Who ran farther. Or did they run the same distance
I don't think so cause make a box of those amounts and there's 1/3 and 2/3 so i THINK it's equal or 1/3 is better idk tho pls correct me if I'm wrong I learned this in school tho
You are correct in thinking that 2/3 and 1/3 are not twice as big as each other. In fact, they are both parts of the whole and add up to 1. Therefore, Lily and Sara ran the same distance since they ran different parts of the same whole.
To compare the distances that Lily and Sara ran, we need to find a common denominator to compare the fractions. In this case, the common denominator is 3.
To find out who ran farther, we can convert both fractions to have the same denominator of 3.
Lily's fraction, 2/3, does not need any changes since the denominator is already 3.
To convert Sara's fraction, 1/3, into the form with a denominator of 3, we need to multiply both the numerator and denominator by 3.
1/3 * 3/3 = 3/9
Now, we have 2/3 for Lily and 3/9 for Sara.
To compare the fractions, we can see that 2/3 is bigger than 3/9.
Therefore, Lily ran a greater distance than Sara.
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isn't 2/3 twice as big as 1/3 ??