Question

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Marian is painting a fence that is 72 ft long. She has already painted 5/8 of the fence. How many feet of fence does he have left to paint? Draw a diagram.

Answer 1

27 ft

Explanation:

So this probably isn't the way that a lot of people would solve this problem but what I do is I first find 1/8 of 72 so 72x(1/8) or 72/8, which is 9. Then, find 5/8 of 72 so 9x5=45. Finally, subtract 45 from 72 and you get 27ft.

Answer 2

27 feet

Explanation:

We can find this answer by taking the initial amount like shown following steps:

First we take the total amount and divide it by 8 to know how much 1/8 is (9)

Second, we multiply that number that we got (9) by 5 since he has already done 5/8 of the fence (45)

Lastly, we know that he has already done 45 ft of the 72 total ft so we subtract 45 from 72 which gets us:

27 ft