A piece of rod meter long is broken into two pieces. One piece was meter long. The length of the other piece of the rod is ____ meter.

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Concept- The length of the other piece of the rod is 5/8 meter.
In order to get the length of the other piece in this problem, we must subtract the length of the broken piece of rod from the length of the original rod. Take the LCM of the denominators to begin resolving the two fractions, and then simplify it further.
The rod's initial length was

meters.
Let

be the length of the other fragment of the broken rod.
The answer to the query is

Thus, the length of the other piece of the rod is

meter.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

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