SOLUTION: One board is 1/3 the length of another. Six times the sum of the length of the short board and -10 is equal to the length of the longer board decreased by 11 inches. Find the len

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Question 349915: One board is 1/3 the length of another. Six times the sum of the length of the short board and -10 is equal to the length of the longer board decreased by 11 inches. Find the length of the longer board.
I keep getting a negative and length cannot be negative! Please help
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Let be the measure of the longer board. Then the shorter board is . 6 times the sum of the short board and -10 is then: . The long board minus 11 is



Solve for .

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