Method
To find out the answer to this, you could do it one of 2 ways.
1. You could change both to a decimal and subtract them or
2. You could treat them as fractions and subtract one from the other.
Argument.
Method One
9/12 = 3/4 = 0.75 You could let your calculator do that
1/3 = 0.3333333
0.75 - 0.3333333 = 0.4166667
9/12 is bigger because you get a positive answer.
Method 2
Or you could stick with the fractions
9/12 - 1/3
You need to put the 1/3 into a fraction over 12
[tex] \frac{1}{3} * \frac{4}{4} = \frac{4}{12} [/tex]
9/12 - 4/12 = 5/12.
9/12 is still bigger because you get a positive result.
Comment
Either way can be done on a calculator, but both indicate that 9/12 > 1/3
