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.
