SOLUTION: A piece of wood is cut into 3 parts. The first part is 1 foot shorter than the third. The second part is 2 feet longer than 3 times the third part. How long is each part if the ent

Question 348654: A piece of wood is cut into 3 parts. The first part is 1 foot shorter than the third. The second part is 2 feet longer than 3 times the third part. How long is each part if the entire piece of wood is 26 feet?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the length of the 3rd part
given:
ft = length of 1st part
ft = length of 2nd part

The parts are 4 ft, 17 ft, and 5 ft long
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