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A 90-inch pipe is cut into two pieces. One piece is five times the length of the other. Find the length of the shorter piece.

User Dozatron
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Answer: the small pipe is 15 inches long

Step-by-step explanation: since the larger pipe is 5 times larger than the small pipe, the 90 inch pipe would have too be divided by 6 to make sure the 5 times of the large pipe and the 1 small pipe. so, you would do 90/6=15. so the small pipe is 15 inches long. the large pipe is 75 inches long.

User Bolat Kazybayev
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Answer:

5x+x=90

Explanation:

5 times the other = 5x

the other piece is x

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