Question

A machine cuts a strip of carpet into two pieces. The length of the smaller piece is 5 meters greater than the length of the larger piece. If the length of the smaller piece is 12 meters, the length of the bigger piece is blank meters and the total length of the carpet is blank meters.

Answer 1

By the way, closing the question and re-posting it doesn't like increase the chances of it being answered haha

The bump button does because it can push it to the top but your post has already been at the top :b

Answer 2

wow how stupid am i lol🤦

Answer 3

So for this question, do you know we can write the equations?

Length of smaller piece is 5 meters greater than the length of the larger piece

Length of smaller piece is 12
what is the length of the larger piece?
and what is the length of the total length of the carpet?

Answer 4

No no no, you're new so I wouldn't expect you to know. Welcome to QuestionCove by the way!

Answer 5

Thanks

Answer 6

So do you know how to write it as an equation so that way we can solve it?

Answer 7

no stuck math is not my thing

Answer 8

So we have
Length of smaller piece is 5 meters greater than the length of the larger piece


Let's use some letters like S for small piece and L for large piece

Following me still?

Answer 9

yep

Answer 10

So

we have

S is 5 meters greater than L

now does the word greater than sound like addition, multiplication, division, or subtraction?

Answer 11

multiplication:/

Answer 12

nooo

Answer 13

Subtraction

Answer 14

@EmilyHerron no

Answer 15

It's addition

Answer 16

think of the word 'is' as an equal sign

so we have

S is 5 meters greater than L

S = 5 greater than L

change `greater than` to a plus sign

what do you get

Answer 17

S=5+L

Answer 18

Great!

Now remember they told you that the length of the smaller piece (S) is 12

so

S = 5 + L
12 = 5 + L

what is L?