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  • 22-08-2018
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If I ate 5 goldfish Susan ate 8 goldfish and there are 1/8 goldfish left how many goldfish were there

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  • 22-08-2018

Let f represent the original number of goldfish.

Then: f - (1/8)f = (5+8). Thus, (7/8)f = 13, and f = (8/7)(13) = 14.9. This makes little sense! Ensure that you have copied down this problem comletely and accurately.


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