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Here's the problem:
You've got two fractions... and you
need to know which one is bigger.
How do you do it?
Well, sometimes it's easy and you can
tell just by looking... and sometimes you need to do some
number crunching.
Let's look at the easy ways:
(The number crunching is in the next lesson.)
Which is greater: 
or 
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Remember that the denominator tells
us how many pieces something (like a pizza) is cut into.
So... You're reeeeeeally hungry...
You can have 1 piece of one
of these pizzas:
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or |
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4
pieces
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10
pieces
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Which do you want?
of a pizza is WAY bigger than
of a pizza!
So
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