Homework Help: Meters

Posted by Camile on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 7:17pm.

Vincent has cut three pieces of rope to complete a science project. Two pieces are of equal length. The third piece is one-quarter the length of each rope of the others. He cut the three pieces from a rope 54 meters long with any rope left over. Fine the answer of meters in each piece. [Show or explain the procedure used to obtain the answer.]

Meters - drwls, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 7:24pm
Let L be the length of the two long ropes. The third rope has length L/4

The total length of all three ropes is
2 1/4 L = 9L/4 and that equals 54 m

If 9L/4 = 54, then

L/4 = 6 m

One more step.
algebra - shalman, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 10:51pm
L=24 METERS

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