Simply divide your wire by 12 and cut off the excess (as it cannot make a full 12-inch section).
27

÷12=2

So you have two 12-inch sections and an additional 3.4-inch section.
Answer:
m=7/2
Step-by-step explanation:
7x-2y=14
2y=7x-14
y=7/2x-14/2
y=7/2x-7
y=mx+b where m=slope and b=y-intercept,
the slope is 7/2
We can distribute
2(5)+2(-x)=10-2x
we get
8+10-2x=?
18-2x=?
whatever that ? is, we don't know
multiply both sides by -1
2x-18=-?
add 18 to both sides
2x=18-?
divide bth sides by 2
x=9-(?/2)
whatever the left side it, just divide it by 2 and subtract it from 9