Jared has a wooden board 11 ft long. He wants to cut it into two pieces so that the longer piece (y) is 4 ft less than 4 times t

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Jared has a wooden board 11 ft long. He wants to cut it into two pieces so that the longer piece (y) is 4 ft less than 4 times t

he length of the shorter piece (x).
Choose the two equations that will create our system of equations for this story problem.

y = 4x - 4

x + y = 11

x - y = 11

y = 4 - 4x

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patriot [66] · Answer 1 · 2022-11-07T22:48:03+03:00

patriot [66]2 years ago

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Answer:

the answer is x + y = 11 and y = 4x - 4