A wire 31 cm long is cut into two pieces. the longer piece is 5 cm longer than the shorter piece. find the length of the shorter
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Step-by-step explanation:
All the variables on the right are being multiplied together then the whole mess is being divided by 2. Let's get rid of the 2 first. The undoing of division is multiplication, so we will begin by multiplying both sides by 2 to get
Next we will move the m. The undoing of multiplication is division. So we divide both sides by m to get
The undoing of a square is to take the square root, so we will do that to both sides giving us, finally