Would someone help me figure out how to draw a diagram showing five eighths of 200?

Answer 1

There are many ways to do this, so please understand that this is only one approach.

You want to have a convenient way to represent an eighth of 200, so take some graph paper and count out squares in a row (200 / 8 = 25).

You need eight total rows like that to make 200, so count up 8 squares in each column.

Put a border around your 25 x 8 squares. That's your 200 total.

Now color in 5 of the 8 rows.

You'll notice that you've colored in 5 x 25 = 125 squares, which is 5/8ths of 200.