SOLUTION: Which fraction is greater, 19/20 or 27/28? To explain your answer, use the meaning of fractions along with reasoning other than finding common denominators, common numerators, cros

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: Which fraction is greater, 19/20 or 27/28? To explain your answer, use the meaning of fractions along with reasoning other than finding common denominators, common numerators, cross-multiplying, or converting to decimal numbers.
The fact that we cannot use any of the above for the reasoning makes it fun beacuse there could be many other ways to reason the answer, but I could only think of the following:
19/20 is missing 1/20
27/28 is missing 1/28
It should be common reasoning that 1/20 must be greater than 1/28
Then 19/20 is missing a greater piece to be complete than 27/28; so 27/28 must be bigger than 19/20 This question is from textbook

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