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" Sean has a piece of string 7/8 meter long.  He uses 1/5 of the piece of string to toie a package and cuts the rest into 5 equal pieces. What is the length of each piece?"

 

I know the answer (from the teacher) is supposed to be 7/50 but I don't have a clue how she got it.

 

 

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