Question

A board 96 inches long is cut into 2 pieces. The first piece is 6 inches longer than twice the length of the second piece. How long is each piece?

Answer 1

Answer:

The length of the board is 60 inches. It's cut into two parts so that the longer piece is 5 times of the shorter part. The equation is formed as under...

Let's assume the shorter part is … x then the longer part is... 5x. The total parts are..

x + 5x = 6x and given that 6x is equal to 60 inches. Therefore...

If 6x = 60 inches then

x = 60/6 = 10 inches and the longer piece is 5x = 5.10 = 50 inches.

The shorter piece is 10 inches long and the length of the longer piece is 50 inches. Answer. Thanks.

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