Question

Jared has a wooden board that is 11 ft long. He wants to cut it into two pieces so that the longer piece is 4 ft less than 4 times the length of the shorter piece.

How long will each piece of board be?

Answer 1

22?

Answer 2

22/9

Answer 3

Ok.

Answer 4

So the shorter peice is 22 and the longer peice is 9?

Answer 5

yep

Answer 6

Thanks.

Answer 7

np

Answer 8

thanks for the medal

Answer 9

Your welcome.

Answer 10

Did you get this question right?

Answer 11

That answer isn't correct. I have no idea how to do it (which is why I am here) but both numbers were wrong :-(.

Answer 12

@jadamc01 is right.