During winter months freshwater fish sense the water getting colder and swim to the bottom of lakes and rivers to find warmer water. If a fish swims seven eights of the depth of a 32-foot deep lake how many feet down did the fish swim

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Answer: 28 feet.


Step-by-step explanation:

1. To solve this problem you must keep on mind the information given in the problem.

2. You know that  fish swims 7/8 of the depth of a 32-foot deep lake. Thererefore, to calculate the number of feet down the fish swam, you must multiply 32 feet by 7/8, as you can see below:

[tex]32feet*\frac{7}{8}=28feet[/tex]

3. Therefore, you can conclude that the fish swam 28 feet down.