A 45-inch board is cut into two pieces. One piece is two times the length of the other. Find the lengths of the two pieces.

Question

Need the short piece 

and

the long piece as answers

 

Answer 1

The given statement means that one piece is 2/3 of the whole original, and the other is the remaining 1/3.

Thus one piece will be 30" in length, and the other will be ________________" in length.

 

Note: ' means ft and " means inches, in length measurementsw (to carpenters and architects).