Question

George is comparing the sizes of two different phones. The screen of phone A has a width of 5.3 cm. The width of the screen on phone B is 5 1/3cm. Which statement explains which phone has the wider screen.

Answer 1

To answer this question, you need to makes the unit of the smartphone screen same. In this case, phone A is using decimal and phone B is using a fraction. You can use which was easier.
Let's try to use decimal. Then you need to convert phone B fraction width into decimal width. The calculation would be: 5cm + 1/3cm= 5 cm + 0.333cm= 5.333cm
From here it clear that phone B has a wider screen than phone A.

Answer 2

Answer:

the correct answer is that Screen B is wider, because 5 and one-third is greater than 5.3.

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