Question

A student compared `- 1/4` and – 0.3. He changed `- 1/4` to the decimal – 0.25 and wrote, “Since 0.3 is greater than 0.25, – 0.3 is greater than – 0.25”. What was the student’s error?

Answer 1

If the numbers are negative, then the numbers whose absolute value is greater, will be smaller.

Hence, – 0.25 is greater than – 0.3.

So, the student made the error that – 0.3 > – 0.25