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Susie's School 5/8 of her students play sports of the students who plays Sports 2/5 play soccer what fraction of students and Susie School play soccer (with steps pls)NO LINKS​

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Answer: 1/4

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Step-by-step explanation:

Let's say this school has 1000 students.

5/8 of that amount is (5/8)*1000 = 625. There are 625 students who play sports.

Then we take 2/5 of this to get (2/5)*625 = 250 to represent the number of people who play soccer.

The last step is to divide that result over the original number of students. Reduce as much as possible.

250/1000 = 25/100 = 1/4

Therefore, 1/4 of all the students play soccer

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