SOLUTION: To do a rope trick, a magician needs to cut a piece of rope so that one piece is one-third the length of the other piece. If she begins with a 24 ft rope, what will be the lengths
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Question 437481: To do a rope trick, a magician needs to cut a piece of rope so that one piece is one-third the length of the other piece. If she begins with a 24 ft rope, what will be the lengths of the two pieces of rope?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If you let 
represent the length of the short piece, then the length of the long piece has to be 3x. The sum of the two lengths must be 24, so:
Solve for , then calculate 
.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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