Question

A blue rope is 3 times as long as a red rope. A green rope is 4 times as long as the blue rope. If the total length of the three ropes is 563.84 meters, what is the length of the blue rope?

Answer 1

105.72 meters

Explanation:

We can set up a system of equations to represent the information given in the problem, and then use algebra to solve for the length of the blue rope. Let x be the length of the red rope.

According to the problem statement:

blue rope = 3 * red rope = 3x

green rope = 4 * blue rope = 4 * 3x = 12x

we know that:

red rope + blue rope + green rope = 563.84

x + 3x + 12x = 563.84

then we can solve for x:

16x = 563.84

x = 35.24

So the length of the red rope is 35.24 meters.

The length of the blue rope is 3x = 3 * 35.24 = 105.72 meters.