SOLUTION: A 25 inch rope is cut into three pieces such that the middle sized piece is 1 inch longer than the short piece and the longest piece is twice as long as the short piece. How long i

Question 122263This question is from textbook Fundamentals of Algebric Modeling
: A 25 inch rope is cut into three pieces such that the middle sized piece is 1 inch longer than the short piece and the longest piece is twice as long as the short piece. How long is each piece? This question is from textbook Fundamentals of Algebric Modeling

Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Let s be the measure of the short piece.  Then the middle piece is s + 1 and the long piece is 2s.














Then the middle piece is 


And the long piece is

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