Question

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A machine cuts a strip of carpet into two pleces. The length of the smaller plece is 5 meters greater than 4 the length of the larger piece. If
the length of the smaller piece is 12 meters, the length of the bigger plece is meters and the total length of the carpet is
meters.

Answer 1

Length of larger piece be x

• Smaller piece=4x+5

x=12m

$\\ \sf\longmapsto 4x+5=4(12)+5=60+5=65m$

Total length=65+12=77m

Answer 2

Answer:

The length of the bigger piece is

28

and the total length is

40