SOLUTION: To do a rope trick, a magician needs to cut a piece of rope so that one piece is one-third the length of the other piece. If she begins with a 24 ft rope, what will be the lengths

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Question 437481: To do a rope trick, a magician needs to cut a piece of rope so that one piece is one-third the length of the other piece. If she begins with a 24 ft rope, what will be the lengths of the two pieces of rope?
Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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If you let represent the length of the short piece, then the length of the long piece has to be 3x. The sum of the two lengths must be 24, so:



Solve for , then calculate .


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