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A piece of string is 325 centimeters long.

You need the string to be 1 and 1/4 (1.25) meters long.

How many centimeters should you cut off?

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It would be 200cm, because 100 cm is 1 meter, and 1.25 would be 125 cm.  So if you subtracts 125 from 325, you get 200 cm.
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