[3.04]Owen scored eighty-five points on a one hundred-point test and twenty-six on a thirty-point quiz. On which did he get a larger fraction of the total points correct? Show your work.

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scorcher219396 · Answer

On the first test he got 85/100 points, which as a decimal is .85
Second test he got 26/36 points, which as a decimal is .722222... or as a different fraction is 72.222.../100
That has the same denominator as the first one, so then you can compare numerators to see which is larger, and 85 is greater than 72.222....