SOLUTION: A 34-foot-long speaker wire is to be cut into three pieces. One piece is to be 12 feet long. Of the remaining pieces, one must be 3 feet less than 4 times the length of the other.

Question 343333: A 34-foot-long speaker wire is to be cut into three pieces. One piece is to be 12 feet long. Of the remaining pieces, one must be 3 feet less than 4 times the length of the other. Find the length of the shorter piece.

Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let and be the unknown lengths,

Substitute,

Then,

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