A board that is 45 m long is separated into two pieces. The longer piece is 8 m longer than the shorter. Find the length of each piece?

Answer 1

Hi Brooke,

if you let x be the length of the shorter piece, x+8 will be the length of the longer piece

the 2 pieces add up to the length of the board

so x + (x+8) = 45, and you can solve for x

Please let me know if you have further questions.