Which has greater frequency: Moon's orbit around Earth or Earth's orbit around Sun?

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Homework Statement



Which is greater, the frequency of the Moon’s revolution about the Earth, or the frequency of Earth’s revolution about the Sun? How much (factor) greater?

Homework Equations



f=1/p
p=period

The Attempt at a Solution


Earth= 1 Revolution/365 days (1 rev/31536000 s)
Moon= 1 Rev/27.322 days (1 rev/2360620.8 s)
 
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So you have two numbers, 1/365 and 1/27. Can't you say which one is greater?

As an aside: the word "month", in many languages, including English,, comes from the word "moon". How does the frequency of changing months compare with that of changing years?