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notka56 [123]
2 years ago
10

A carpenter has a wooden dowel that is 72 centimeters long. She wants to cut it into 2 pieces so that one piece is 5 times as lo

ng as the other. What are the lengths of the 2 pieces?
Mathematics
1 answer:
Jobisdone [24]2 years ago
6 0
Let's say that the shorter piece is x and the longer piece is 5x (because it's 5 times as long). x+5x=72 and 6x=72. Dividing both sides by 6, we get that x=12, and 72-12=the length of the other piece (since there are only 2 pieces)=60
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