Tevon and Rachel both live close to their school. Tevon lives 3/4 of a mile from the school and Rachel lives 6/10 of a mile from the school. Who lives closer to the school? Explain how you know

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Rachel lives closer to school than Tevon.

According to the question,

We have the following information:

Tevon lives 3/4 of a mile from the school and Rachel lives 6/10 of a mile from the school.

Now, we will first make the denominators of these fractions by taking the least common multiple of the two numbers.

The least common multiple of 4 and 10 is 20.

Now, we will multiply the first fraction by 5 in both numerator and denominator (20/4).

And we will multiply the second fraction by 2 in both numerator and denominator (20/10).

So, we have the following distance for Tevon:

(3*5)/(4*5)

15/20

Distance for Rachel:

(6*2)/(10*2)

12/20

Now, the distance will be less for the one whose numerator is less. So, 12/20 is less than 15/20 by 3/20.

Hence, Rachel lives closer to school than Tevon.

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