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If a worker has completed 5/8 of a job, what percent of the job remains to be
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document.write( "There are EIGHT EIGHTS in a whole job.  The worker has finished FIVE\r\n" );
document.write( "of those EIGHTS, so the other THREE EIGHTS of the job remain to be\r\n" );
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document.write( "We write THREE EIGHTS as a fraction \r\n" );
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document.write( "We divide the denominator into the numerator to change it to a decimal:\r\n" );
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document.write( "    .375\r\n" );
document.write( " 8)3.000\r\n" );
document.write( "   2 4\r\n" );
document.write( "     60\r\n" );
document.write( "     56\r\n" );
document.write( "      40\r\n" );
document.write( "      40\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then we take the quotient as a decimal .375\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then we change the decimal to a percent by moving the decimal\r\n" );
document.write( "two places to the right and putting on a %\r\n" );
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document.write( "Answer 37.5%\r\n" );
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