# Pipe

Steel pipe has a length 2.5 meters. About how many decimetres is 1/3 less than 4/8 of this steel pipe?

Result

d =  4.2 dm

#### Solution:

$d=10 \cdot \ 2.5 \cdot \ (4/8-1/3)=4.2 \ \text{dm}$

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