♥ If you have 297 dogs but you lost 131, to solve, you will subtract. This is because you are taking away. ⇒ 297-131=166 ♥ Therefore you have 166 dogs left.
ALTERNATIVE ROUTE: You know that 0.125 is equal to 1/8 And 1/2^3 is also equal to 1/8 So since you need the reciprocal to match it the exponent is a negative
