Question

sam had one and a half meters of rope he cut off 5/8m and used for a project. How much rope to sam have left

Answer 1

15/16 meters of rope left.

Show-Your-Work:

5/8 of 1 1/2 is 0.9375. (I used a calculator, but you can use long division)

0.9375, move the . 2 places to the right. It should look like this:

093.75. Since we don't need the 0 anymore, you can remove it.

93.75% is now a percent! Now we just do 93.75/100 and simplify.