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Greg has a peice of rope that is 18 ft long he want to cut it into two pieces so that the longer piece is 2 ft less than three times the length of the
shorter piece

How long will each rope be

Shorter piece:___ft
Longer piece:___ft

Sagot :

luana
[tex]x-shorter\ piece\\3x-2-longer\ piece\\\\x+3x-2=18\\x+3x=18+2\\4x=20\ \ \ \ |:4\\x=5\\\\3\cdot5-2=15-2=13\\\\Shorter\ piece:5\ ft\\Longer\ piece:\ 13\ ft[/tex]
its shorter piece: 5 ft
longer piece :   13ft

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