How do you order these from smallest to largest: sqrt(9/25), 2/3, 62% and .66?

1 Answer
Aug 3, 2017

Convert all values into a form that you can manage with. Order accordingly.

Explanation:

The easiest way to do this is to evaluate them into a form that is easy to manage. In my opinion, I believe decimals are easy to work with, so we're going to convert all these values into decimals.

The first one: sqrt(9/25).

To do this, we just simplify the fraction. 9 and 25 are both squared numbers, so if we find the square root of these values and divide, then we have our decimal!

(sqrt9/25)

=3/5

I'm actually going to convert this into tenths but it's not necessary.

=6/10

=0.6

The second one: 2/3.

We know that 2/3 are simply 0.667. We can check our work by inserting it into a calculator.

The third one: 65%.

Percents are just essentially a decimal itself, where 100% is 1 "whole". Thus, 65% is equal to 0.65.

The last one: 0.66.

It's already a decimal so no need to do anything.

With all decimal values: 0.6,0.667, 0.65, and 0.66.

We can easily order them from smallest to largest.

Thus, we get: 0.6, 0.65, 0.66 and finally 0.667.

Hope this helps :)