Question

What are these in order from smallest to biggest?
60%
0.4
1/2

Answer 1

0.4, 1/2, and then 60%

Answer 2

Let's start with the percentage.  if anything has a % at the end, it means that it's over one hundred.  So really, $60%=\frac{60}{100}=\frac{6}{10}$

Now we'll go to the $0.4$.  Anything to the first decimal place is over 10, so $0.4=\frac{4}[10}$. 

And lastly, $\frac{1}{2}$ is equal to $\frac{5}{10}$ if you multiply both the top and the bottom. So now we have three fractions: $\frac{6}{10},\frac{4}{10},\frac{5}{10}$  So in order from smallest to biggest:

$\frac{4}{10},\frac{5}{10},\frac{6}{10}$/  So that's equal to:

$0.4, \frac{1}{2}, 60%$

Hopefully this helps!