Apiece of yarn 29 inches is cut into two parts, If one of the resulting pieces is m inches long, represent the length of the other piece.
If I told you that one piece was 20 inches long, how would you figure out the other piece?
Do the same here, but use "m" as the known length.
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My homework is telling me to put this in an algebraic representation
To represent the length of the other piece, you can subtract the length of one piece from the total length.
Let's say the total length of the yarn is 29 inches. If one of the resulting pieces is "m" inches long, the length of the other piece can be represented as:
29 inches - m inches
This equation simply subtracts the length of one piece (m inches) from the total length of the yarn (29 inches). The result will give you the length of the other piece.