is 3/8 equal to 7/16

Question

7/16 equals 1/2 an inch. so is 3/8 equal to 7/16?

Answer 1

8/16 of an inch is half an inch, because if you divide an inch into 16 equal parts, half of these, 8 of them, will make up half an inch. You can see this if you have a ruler divided into sixteenth, so 7/16 is one sixteenth less than half so it cannot be equal to a half.