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  • 12-11-2014
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Sean has a piece of string 7/8 meter long. He uses 1/5 of the piece of string to tie a package and cuts the rest into 5 equal pieces. What is the length of each piece?

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dawtlenpar99
dawtlenpar99 dawtlenpar99
  • 12-11-2014

let change 7/8 and 1/5 into decimal point so 0.88 and 0.2 
0.88-0.2 =0.68
then we want 5 equal length so we divided
0.68 / 5 =0.14

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