three eighths
Is five sixth greater Than one forth
5 + 3 1/6 = 8 1/6 or eight and one sixth.
Five tenths
83.33333333%
Five sixths of an inch is larger.
7
three eighths
Is five sixth greater Than one forth
5 + 3 1/6 = 8 1/6 or eight and one sixth.
seventeen and seven over twelve
Five tenths
15
83.33333333%
1 3/6
No. 1 and a fourth is 11/4 = 5/4 = five fourths three fourths is 3/4 1 and something cannot be equal to anything less than 1.
When you have three fourths of something, one fourth is still missing. If you have five sixths of something, only one sixth is missing, so you have more than if one fourth is missing (one sixth being a smaller portion missing than one fourth). If you had ninety-nine one hundredths, only one one hundredth would be missing, meaning you would have nearly the whole thing.