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A little birdie told us you wanted to shmoop a math problem...

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Which number is largest? And here are the potential answers...

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OK, this question is just asking whether or not we have mastered The Number Line.

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The answer is going to be somewhere in the "7"s area ...around here...so this is where it's gonna live.

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To get the answer, we just zip through the choices one by one.

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First we have the absolute value of negative 7, which is just... 7.

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7 and 3/8 -- ok, so we need to decimalize and we divide 8 into 3.

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So three divided by 8 is 0.375... so 7.375. So it lives here.

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7.5 is already decimalized for us. Woot. It lives here.

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OK, now we have 7 and 1/12 -- well... just looking at this number, we don't need to

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go through the hassle of doing the math.

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We know 1/12 is less than 1/8, which we just did, and this one will be even smaller...

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...so let's just punt it.

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And lastly, we have 4/9 -- well... we know 4/8 is one-half, right?

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But here we have 4/9, so we know it'll be LESS than a half...

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or smaller than the 7.5 number here.

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We don't have to blast out the math here either.

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The largest is 7.5... and the answer is C.

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As in, "Chewbacca's feeling left out."

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