36foot pipe divided into three pieces.One piece is twice as long as the shortest piece&other third piece is 1foot longer than four times the shortest piece.

Question

here is the rest of the question: find the length of the shortest piece.

Answer 1

Sofia,

 

Let the length of shortest piece be x ft

 

Second piece is 2x ft

 

Third piece is 4*x + 1 ft

 

Combined length is x + 2x + 4x + 1 = 36

7x + 1 = 36

x = 5

 

Shortest piece is 5 ft in length