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d. One holding pen uses 500 feet of fence
wire and 100 feet of tie wire. A farmer
uses a combined length of 1,000 yards of
wire. What length of tie wire was used?




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Answer:

  500 ft or 166 2/3 yards

Step-by-step explanation:

The tie wire is (100)/(100 +500) = 1/6 of the total length of wire used. If 1000 yards of wire is used, 1/6 of that amount can be expected to be tie wire. That is ...

  (1000 yd)/6 = 166 2/3 yd = 500 ft