Tracy is cleaning up after tiling a bathroom there are four open boxes of tile each box has 5/8 of tile remaining how many boxes of tile are left

Hm...boxes, tiles...math!

This is multiplication. But instead of crossing our fingers and multiplying the first two numbers you see, let me explain: it says that there are FOUR open boxes of tile. Ok...what else? EACH box has 5/8 of tile remaining. EACH!!! That means, to find how much is left for FOUR boxes, multiply 4 by (5/8)

(4/1) • (5/8)

(20/8)

2.5

Or 2 (1/2) [two and a half] boxes