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A carpenter has s wooden dowel that is 72cm long. She wants to cut into two pieces so that one piece is 5 times as long as the other. What are the lengths of the two pieces?
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It's 12 and 60
Call (n) is the first piece of wooden, so the second piece of wooden is 5n.
=> n + 5n = 72
=> 6n = 72
=> n = 12
The first piece is 12 and the second piece is 60.
* Sorry my English is so bad =)))
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