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  • 22-09-2020
  • Mathematics
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A 84-inch board is cut into two pieces. One piece is two times the length of the other. Find the
length of the shorter piece.
The shorter piece.

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  • 22-09-2020

Answer:

the short piece is 28 and the long piece is 56

Step-by-step explanation:

you can label the short piece x and the long piece as 2x

84= short (x)+ long (2x)

84=x+2x

84=3x

x=28

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