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Marcie bought a 50 foot roll of packing tape she used two 8 5/6 foot lengths how much tape is left on the roll

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Answer: it's either 32 2/6 or 32 1/3

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User Mikael Persson
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so you know that we can do 50 - 8 which equals 42.
42 is not the answer because there was a little more than 8 feet used

So if you have 50 pizzas which are cut into 6 slices each and you at 8 of them you have 42 pizzas left. But if you eat 5 slices you have 41 and 1 slice left which is equal to 41 1/6

Hope this helps!!!
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