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A piece of wire `7/8` metre long broke into two pieces. One piece was `1/4` metre long. How long is the other piece?

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Total length of the given wire = `7 / 8` metre
Length of one piece of wire = `1 / 4` metre
To find the length of the other piece we need to subtract length of one piece from the total length.
= `7 / 8 – 1 / 4`
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