SOLUTION: A piece of wire is 8 inches long. The wire is cut into two pieces and then each piece is bent into a square. Find the length of each piece if the sum of the areas of these square

Question 1075047: A piece of wire is 8 inches long. The wire is cut into two pieces and then each piece is bent into a square. Find the length of each piece if the sum of the areas of these squares is to be 2 square inches
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
first part.

If x and y is each used as perimeter to make a square of each, then sum of the areas is
or

Solve the system .

Answer by ikleyn(52780) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The length of each piece is 4 inches.

You can solve it MENTALLY.

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