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A rope is 89 cm long. It is cut into 3 pieces. The longest................Find the length of the shortest piece (in cm).

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A rope is 89 cm long.
It is cut into 3 pieces.
The longest piece is 3 times as long as the middle-sized piece and the shortest piece is 44 cm shorter than the longest piece.
Find the length of the shortest piece (in cm).

posted Aug 19, 2020 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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