SOLUTION: A 2-metre long wire is cut into 5 pieces. three of the shorter pieces have lenghts in cm, which are consecutive whole numbers while the two lnger pieces are each x cm. find the len

Question 106390: A 2-metre long wire is cut into 5 pieces. three of the shorter pieces have lenghts in cm, which are consecutive whole numbers while the two lnger pieces are each x cm. find the lenght of the shortest piece.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The consecutive whole numbers can be called
,,
The sum of the 2 longer pieces is
What if each longer piece were 100 cm? Then ther would be nothing left for the
other three pieces

Now keep making x smaller and see how much is left for the other three
lengths, and if they can be consecutive numbers.

and is too big

is still too big

works out good

So, the lengths are 1,2,3,97,97
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