Eight tenths simplified is 4/5ths. When both are converted into percentages, 4/5ths is obviously bigger. Two thirds is not bigger than eight tenths.
Two thirds is twice as much as one third.
8.4
2.8
8/10" is roughly .067'
0.8 pounds is 12.8 ounces
one twelfth (1/12)
2/3 of 8 = 5 and 1/3
19.68
Eight and one third cups.
Fourths are much bigger than tenths. They are so much bigger that it only takes FOUR of them to make one whole something. Tenths are smaller; it takes TEN of them to make the same whole something. Make 2 identical strawberry rhubarb pies. Cut one into FOUR equal pieces. Cut the other into TEN equal pieces. If you give out a piece from the one cut into 4 pieces, and a piece from the one cut into 10 pieces, which piece will be larger? The first pie is cut into fourths, and the second is cut into tenths.
1/10 (0.1) is much smaller than 8/10 (0.8)
8.4Eight and four tenths can be expressed as 8.4. To the right of the decimal place/point, the first position is tenths, the second place is hundredths, and the third place is thousandths, fourth place is ten thousandths..etc..