7/27 ? 11/36
< or > or =

  Less than sign

7/27 < 11/36

Work Shown:

First assume the two fractions are equal

7/27 = 11/36

Let's cross multiply to get...

7*36 = 27*11

252 = 297

The last equation is false, so the original equation is false. We can fix things by replacing the equal sign with a less than sign (since 252 is less than 297), so we get this instead

7/27 < 11/36

7*36 < 27*11

252 < 297

Showing that 7/27 is smaller than 11/36. We can confirm this by converting everything to decimal form. Use a calculator.

7/27 = 0.259 approximately

11/36 = 0.306 approximately

We see that 7/27 has the smaller decimal representation.