SOLUTION: Miguel needs to cut his 40 cm piece of yarn into three smaller pieces. The longest piece is to be 3 times as long as the middle-sized piece, and the shortest is to be 5 cm shorter

Question 301848: Miguel needs to cut his 40 cm piece of yarn into three smaller pieces. The longest piece is to be 3 times as long as the middle-sized piece, and the shortest is to be 5 cm shorter than the middle-sized piece. What lengths should be cut?
Answer by helpnalgebra(91) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
this has been answered so im posting it for you incase you didnt see it.

Let the midle-sized piece have length "x".
Longest piece has length "3x".
Shortes piece has length "x-5".
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Equation:
x + 3x + x-5 = 40
5x = 45
x = 9 cm (middle)
3x = 27 cm (largest)
x-5 = 4 cm (smallest)
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