Answer:
12 and 16
Step-by-step explanation:
Turn it into algebra.
Make one of the pieces x. So x+4 is the piece that is 4 feet longer and x is the piece that it is 4 feet longer than.
So x+4+x=28, which is the total length, and if you simplify it, it makes 2x+4=28.
Then you just solve it, so do 28-4=24, and then divide that by 2, which gets 12.
Then you substitute 12 where x has been substituted for the pieces.
One piece is x feet, so that just stays 12, and another piece is x+4, so 12+4 which is 16.
To make sure it's correct, you can check it by doing 16-12=4 and add 12 and 16 together which gets the correct total of 28.
