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?

Answer 1

x=one piece of wood

4x-4= the second piece of wood

X+(4x-4)=11 the two added together will equal 11

5x-4=11 combine terms and solve. add 4 to both sides

5x=15 divide both sides by 5

x=3

one piece is 3 feet and the other is 4x3-4=8 feet