SOLUTION: Raj has a party length submarine sand which of 59 inches. He want to cut into three pieces so that the large piece is 5 inches longer than the middle piece and the shortest piece

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Question 1154860: Raj has a party length submarine sand which of 59 inches. He want to cut into three pieces
so that the large piece is 5 inches longer than the middle piece and the shortest piece
is 9 inches shorter than the middle piece. How long should each piece of sandwich be?
Found 3 solutions by mananth, josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by mananth(16949) About Me  (Show Source):
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that the is 5 inches longer thanand the shortest piece is 9 inches shorter than the middle piece
Let middle piece be x
large piece =x +5
Small piece is x-9
x+x+5+x-9 =59
3x =63
x=21
x+5=26
x-9=12

Answer by josgarithmetic(39735) About Me  (Show Source):
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short              m-9
middle             m
long              m+5
TOTAL             59

%28m-9%29%2Bm%2B%28m%2B5%29=59
Solve.
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Answer by ikleyn(53618) About Me  (Show Source):
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Raj has a party length submarine sand which of 59 inches. He want to cut into three pieces
so that the large piece is 5 inches longer than the middle piece and the shortest piece
is 9 inches shorter than the middle piece. How long should each piece of sandwich be?
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As I read this problem several times, I thought "Why I can not get the meaning of this text ?"

Finally, I guessed the reason: the words "sand" and "which" are not two separate words -
- they are, actually, ONE WORD "sandwich".

After that, everything fell into place.