document.write( "Question 338510: If a 5-cm piece of wire is cut into two parts so that one part is four times as long as the other, what is the length of the longer part? \n" ); document.write( "
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\n" ); document.write( "Let's have x represent the shorter part. So now we can set up an equation as:
\n" ); document.write( "x+4x=5
\n" ); document.write( "Combine terms and divide by 5 to get:
\n" ); document.write( "x=1
\n" ); document.write( "There we go. The shorter is 1 cm and the other is 4 cm
\n" ); document.write( "Make sense?
\n" ); document.write( "RJ
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