So break it down to decimals, if we know that 1/4 is 0.25 then we can work off of the left numberstart at the lowest possible, 1/51/5=0.2in this case 1/4 is larger than 1/5 so we go 2/5>1/42/5=0.4 which is larger than 0.25So 2 would be the lowest whole number to complete the comparison 2/5>1/4