how to order fractions when it has different numerators and denominators?

Answer 1

Find a common denominator, or if they're simple, use common sense!

1/6 is less than 1/2, if you think about it.

7/8 is more than 1/3, if you think about it.

Answer 2

Find the lowest common denominator; the one which all the denominators can be divided into without a remainder. Then divide each denominator into that number and multiply the numerator by the result. The new denominator would be the lowest common denominator. For example, 1/4 and 1/2 would become 1/4 and 2/4. And, 3/8 and 1/4 would become 3/8 and 2/8. Then reordering them would be easy.

Answer 3

You need to find the lowest common denominator and then convert all the fractions to have that denominator.

EX: 2/3, 4/5, 5/6. The lowest common denominator is 30 so you would have to write them as 20/30, 24/30, 25/30.

So now it is easy to see which ones are greater or lesser for ordering. After ordering simply reduce back to the original fraction.

Answer 4

put them all over the same denominator,

e.g. 1/3, 5/9, 1/6

put them all over a common denominator. here it could be 18.

1/3 = 6/18, 5/9 = 10/18, 1/6 = 3/18

and then you can order these.

you can find a common denominator by multiplying all the denominators of the fractions but sometimes there are smaller common denominators as above (we could have used 3*9*6 = 162 as denominator)

Answer 5

Get the same number on the denominator:-
Example
Place 5/6 , 7/8, 3/4 in order.
5/6 = 20/24------middle value
7/8 = 21/24------largest value
3/4 = 18/24------smallest value
Hope this example helps.

Answer 6

if all else fails, actually do the division. so if you have 1/4, 2/3, 5/12, and 7/15, you get .25, .66, .412, and .46

so to order those, you have 1/4, 5/12, 7/15, and 2/3

Answer 7

The easiest way(for me) especially when having many fractions, is to convert them to decimals, then order them.

Answer 8

Divide the bottom number into the top number and organize them according to their decimal value.