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From a piece of wire 0.5 meter long, a machine cuts off a piece 0.005 meter long. The remaining piece is how many times as long as the piece that was cut off?

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From a piece of wire 0.5 meter long, a machine cuts off a piece 0.005 meter long. The remaining piece is how many times as long as the piece that was cut off?

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0.005 meters is one hundredth or 1% of 0.5 meters. So, we are removing 1% and are left with 99%. Therefore, the remaining piece is 99 times as long as the piece that was cut off.

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