Question
What is the Error in question$?$ A student compared $-\frac{1}{4}$ and $-0.3.$ He changed $-\frac{1}{4}$ 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$?$
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Answer
If the numbers are negative, then the numbers whose ab solute value is greater, will be smaller. Hence, $-0.25$ is greater than $-0.3$ So, the student made the error that $(-0.3) > - (0.25)$
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