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Pat needs a length of barbed wire that is 17.8 meters long and another that is 8.75 meters long. He has a spool with 33.3 meters of barbed wire.

How much barbed wire will Pat have left after cutting off the two lengths he needs?

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Hint: subtraction.....
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