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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Jared has a wooden board that is 11 ft long. He wants it cut into 2 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

OpenStudy (campbell_st):

well let the shorter piece be x the other piece is 4x - 4 and together its 11 ft so x + 4x - 4 = 11 or 5x - 4 = 11 now solve for x, which is the shorter piece hope it helps

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