I know it's hard to tell when you just look at the fractions 2/5 and 3/8 . To make it easier to compare them, I'll change both of them to a form that's easier to see.
-- If you have 2 fifths of something, then you have 40% of it.
-- If I have 3 eighths of it, then I have 37.5% of it.
-- 40 is more than 37.5, so it's easy to see that you have a little bit more of it
than I have, and 2/5 is bigger than 3/8 .
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Two fifths is bigger.
Two thirds is (6 and 2/3) percent bigger than 5 eighths.
2/5 as it is same as 6/15 multiply both parts by 3
One half is bigger than two fifths because two fifths just before 2.5 fifths which is half.
4 fifths is bigger than 2 fifths. In fractions, the numerator represents the number of parts being considered, and the denominator represents the total number of parts in a whole. Therefore, having 4 parts out of 5 is greater than having 2 parts out of 5.