Is 1/5 greater than 5/5?

To compare two fractions, such as 1/5 and 5/5, there are two main common methods: the first one involves finding a common denominator, and the other one is to convert the fractions directly into decimal values.

1) Using the same denominator

Given that 1/5 and 5/5 share the same common denominator (5), the comparison is straightforward: we just have to check which numerator is the largest.

Since 1 is smaller than 5, we can conclude that 1/5 is less than 5/5.

2) Converting to decimal

We can also simply convert the fractions into decimal values:

  1. 1 divided by 5 is equal to 0.2
  2. 5 divided by 5 is equal to 1

Since 0.2 is smaller than 1, it means that 1/5 is less than 5/5.