Not necessarily. They are simply two different ways of writing numbers that can be big or small.
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Uh . . . . . .no a fraction is less than a whole like a decimal. a number a whole. Therefore a fraction is less than a number.
A millimetre is a fixed distance, whereas a decimal is a way of writing a value. The question is like asking if a foot is bigger than a fraction. A foot may be bigger than a fraction of a yard or a mile, but it is certainly not bigger than a proper fraction of an inch.
7/10 is bigger than 2/5
You can make a fraction that is bigger, or smaller, than a mixed number.
7.5 is bigger than 5.77 but .5 is smaller than .77 so 5.77 has the bigger decimal than 7.5