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Question 123

A student compared $-\frac{1}{4}$ and $-0.3$ he changed $-\frac{1}{4}$ to the decimal $-0.25$ and wrote, "since , $0.3$ is greater than $0.25$, so $-0.3$ is greater than $-0.25$". What was the students error?

Answer 1

If the numbers are negative, then the numbers whose absolute value is greater, will be smaller. Hence - 0.25 is greater than - 0.3.
So, the student made the error that (-0.3) > - (0.25)