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A piece of string is 325325 centimeters long. You need the string to be 1 and one fourth meters long. How many centimeters should you cut off?

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One meter is 100 centimeters. One fourth of one meter is 25 centimeters.

To figure this out, subtract 325 and 125

325
-125
--------
200

You would have to cut off 200 centimeters if your string was 325 centimeters
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