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Why is 1 8th greater than 1 10th but less than 1 3rd?

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That makes perfect sense. The bigger the bottom number gets in a fraction, the smaller

the value of the fraction gets. Because a bigger number on the bottom means that one

whole thing is cut up into more pieces; so naturally each piece is going to be smaller.

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