Question

David has a hose that is 27 ft long. He wants to cut it into two pieces so that the longer piece is 3 ft more than 2 times the length of the shorter piece.

How long will each piece of hose be?

Shorter piece: ft
Longer piece: ft

Answer 1

@iGreen @gelow @sleepyhead314 @sleepyjess

Answer 2

First, what would the equation be to solve this?

Answer 3

make this into an equation
3 more than 2 times the short equals 27
so 3 + 2S = 27
and S + L = 27 (the two pieces added up equal 27)
do you know how to use these two equations to solve for the variables? :)

Answer 4

sorta..

Answer 5

let's use the 3 + 2S = 27 first can you solve for S ? :3

Answer 6

um...
2S=27-3?

Answer 7

good! :)
then keep going :D

Answer 8

2S=24
s=12?

Answer 9

yes! yay you got it! hehe ^_^

then now that we have s = 12
let's plug it into S + L = 27
to solve for L
can you do that? :3

Answer 10

27-12=15 so is it 12 and 15?

Answer 11

correct! :D
tah dahhhh :)

Answer 12

thanks Sleepy. :D

Answer 13

no problem ^_^