A ream of paper contains 500 sheets of paper. Norm has 373 sheets of paper left from a ream. Express the portion of a ream Norm has as a fraction and as a decimal.

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2020-12-30

A ream of paper contains 500 sheets of paper. Norm has 373 sheets of paper left from a ream. Express the portion of a ream Norm has as a fraction and as a decimal.

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Luvottoq

Luvottoq

Skilled2020-12-31Added 95 answers

The fraction is the amount of paper remaining to the total number of sheets in the original ream:
373500 
Note that this is the simplest form. 
Add two to the fraction's numerator and denominator to make the denominator equal 1000. Because you only need to move the decimal point three spaces to the left, finding the decimal becomes simpler:
373500×22=7461000 
373500,0,746

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