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?

Shorter piece: ft
Longer piece: ft

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?
 
Shorter piece:    ft
Longer piece:     ft

anonymous · Answer

why did you close it?

ash2326 · Answer

@RainbowBubbles01 did you try to frame any equation?

anonymous · Answer

isnt longer piece 22 ?

ash2326 · Answer

Your wooden board is 11 feet long. The longer piece can't be longer than 11 feet

anonymous · Answer

ok so its 8 and the short one is 3 ^_^ nope its wrong isnt it

anonymous · Answer

hello?

ash2326 · Answer

How did you find? did you solve and found the answer?

anonymous · Answer

did i? are they right? cause its an answer for one of my questions and i only have 2 more after this one so its for one of those

ash2326 · Answer

It's right but you should learn to solve the question. Can you try to make an equation? I will help if you get stuck.

anonymous · Answer

nu :,( and i just want to get today over and done with so next question ok

anonymous · Answer

Admission to the museum is $12 for children and $15 for adults. On a certain day, 2450 people go to the museum and $33,456 is collected.
 
How many children and how many adults went to the museum?
 
  children
  adults