SOLUTION: yuri has a board that is 98 inches long. he wishes to cut the board into two pieces so that one piece will be 10 inches longer than the other. what should the length of each piece

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Question 21317: yuri has a board that is 98 inches long. he wishes to cut the board into two pieces so that one piece will be 10 inches longer than the other. what should the length of each piece be?
Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let one of the pieces by "x" inches long.
Then the other must be "x+10" long.
EQUATION:
one piece + the other is 98inches
x + x+10 = 98
2x = 88
x = 44 inches (length of shorter piece)
x + 10 = 54 inches (length of longer piece)
Cheers,
Stan H.