• Look at the numbers carefully.
• Rule 1: If a number has more digits than another, it is greater of the two.
• Rule 2: If two numbers have the same number of digits, we compare them by their extreme left-most digits. The number with the greater digit is greater.
• If the extreme left-most digits are the same, we compare them by their next digits to the right and so on.

Example: 95,356 ? 9,558
Here the first number 95,356 has more digits than the second number 9,558
Therefore 95,356 > 9,558
Answer: >

Example: 95,356 ? 95,578

1. Start comparing from ten thousands place, both the numbers contain 9.
2. In thousands place both contain 5 .
3. In hundreds place the first number contains 3 and the second contains 5.
4. Hence first number is lesser than second.