Question 514098: a 60 inch pipe is cut into two pieces. one piece is five times the length of the other. what are the lengths of the two pieces? Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You can say that one piece is 5 units long
and the other is 1 unit long
so the longer piece is of the
total length
The shorter piece is of the
total length
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Longer piece:
Sorter piece:
The lengths are 50 in and 10 in
