SOLUTION: a rope 75m. long is cut into two pieces where one is 11m. longer than the other.find their length.can you give me the solution.?

Question 765955: a rope 75m. long is cut into two pieces where one is 11m. longer than the other.find their length.can you give me the solution.?
Answer by MaartenRU(13) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's call the length of the long piece in meters x.

Then the length of the shorter piece must be 75-x. We know that x is 11 more than 75-x. So

Add x on both sides:

And so

So our pieces are 43m and 32m long respectively.
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