Question

A rope is 66 feet long. It is cut into two pieces such that one piece is half the length of the other. What is the length of the longer piece of rope?

22 feet
26 feet
33 feet
44 feet
136 degrees

Answer 1

the length of the longer piece of rope is 44 feet

Answer 2

Explanation:

So if one bit of the length, is half the size of the other bit then we can make the following equation, for x being the length of rope:

x + 2x = 66

3x = 66

x = 22

That is the length, of the smaller one (half the big one), so 2x = 44. Hence d) is your answer.

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