SOLUTION: Please help me solve this. Alice cut a rope 90 meters long into two pieces in the ratio 2:3. What is the length of the longer piece of rope?

Question 678852: Please help me solve this. Alice cut a rope 90 meters long into two pieces in the ratio 2:3. What is the length of the longer piece of rope?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

long into two pieces and in the ratio :

the ratio means you need divide by to find out what is a length that you will multiply by to find , and by to find

check is the ratio of these lengths same as the ratio

..so, this confirms our answer

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