Which is larger 1 over 5 or 5 over 12?

Answer 1

5/12 is (108 and 1/3)% bigger than 1/5 .

another way of telling what is bigger is to covert them to decimal form (at least I think it is easier)

1/5 = .20

5/12=.416 (repeating 6)

so 5/12 (.416) is bigger then 1/5 (.20)