Compare 11:8 Division: Is the Quotient Less Than 1?

Without calculating, determine whether the quotient in the following division is less than 1:

11:8 11:8

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00:06 Let's decide if the answer is less than or greater than 1, without calculating.
00:11 Here, the top number, or numerator, is bigger than the bottom number, or denominator.
00:20 For fractions like this, where the numerator is larger, the result is greater than 1.
00:32 And that's how we find the answer!

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Without calculating, determine whether the quotient in the following division is less than 1:

11:8 11:8

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Note that the numerator is smaller than the denominator:

11>8 11 > 8

As a result, it can be written like this:

118>1 \frac{11}{8} > 1

Therefore, the quotient in the division problem is not less than 1.

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More than 1

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