A major stadium has 45,000 seats. If baseball fans have bought 5/8 of the seats for the next game, how many seats are available

Question

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Answer 1

The 5/8 of the seats out of 45000 is 45000 *(5/8) = 28125 seats so the remaining available seats are

45000 - 28125 = 16875 seats