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Well, you really need to think on this one. The shorter piece can be four inches long. See, when you multiply four by two, you get eight. And when you add four and eight together, you get twelve inches, which is one foot.

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The length of the shorter piece is l/3

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Given the following parameters

  • Length of the stick  = l feet

If the stick is broken into two, then we can say;

  • The length of the shorter piece is "a"
  • The length of the longer piece is "b"

If one is twice as long as the other, then;

a = 2b

Since the stick is l feet long, then;

a + b = l

2b + b = ll

3b = l

Hence the length of the shorter piece is l/3

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