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Comparing Decimals

Compare each pair of decimals. Show which one is greater using a < or > sign. Explain how you determined which decimal is greater.

  • 1 Which is greater, 0.365 or 0.28?

  • 2 Margaret ran 1.62 miles. Alex ran 0.97 mile. Who ran farther?

  • 3 Which is greater, 1.56 or 1.29?

  • 4 On Monday, it rained 2.06 inches. On Tuesday, it rained 2.24 inches. On which day did it rain more?


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Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Puzzles, Clusters, and Towers Unit 2 Prisms and Solids Unit 3 Rectangles, Clocks, and Tracks Unit 4 How Many People and Teams? Unit 5 Temperature, Height, and Growth Unit 6 Between 0 and 1 Unit 7 Races, Arrays, and Grids Unit 8 Properties of Polygons