A 17 foot pipe is cut into three sections. The longest section is 3 times as long as the shortest and the middle sized section is 2 feet longer than the shortest. Find the length of each section to the nearest foot

Answer 1

if the sections are a,b,c then we have

a+b+c=17
c=3a
b=a+2

solve those to get the lengths of
3,5,9