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Question

edgar needed to cut a pice of wood into two smaller sediments the shorter peice was 1 yard long than half longer piece if the legnth of the entire piece of wood was 7 years calculate the length of each piece

Answer 1

S=1+L/2

L+S = 7

L+1+L/2 =7

3L/2 = 6

L = (2/3)6 = 4

S = 1+4/2 = 3