Question

a major stadium has 45,000 seats if the baseball fans have bought 5/8 of the seats fo rth enext game how many seats are availabe

Answer 1

5/8 of 45000 seats have been bought

seats bought = 5/8 of 45000 is 5/8 * 45000 [Find it out]

So seats available = Total - seats bought
= 45000 - seats bought

Understood? :)