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Sarah has a piece of rope that is 10 ft long. She wants to cut it into 2 pieces so that the longer piece is 2 ft less than 3 times the shorter piece.

How many ft long will the shorter piece be?

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shorter piece --- x
longer piece ---- 3x-2

solve for x:

x + 3x-2 = 10

take it from here

Long=7
Short=3

hi the answer is thirteen

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