A piece of wire 5/14m long broke into two pieces .one piece was 1/7 m long.How long is the other piece ?
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A piece of wire 5/14m long broke into two pieces .one piece was 1/7 m long.How long is the other piece ?
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Answer:
3/14m is the correct answer☑
Step-by-step explanation:
Other piece will be :
[tex] = \frac{5}{14} - \frac{1}{7} \\ = \frac{5 -2 }{14} \\ = \frac{3}{14 } m \: ans.[/tex]
Answer:
Hey there.
All you need to do is subtract the the length of the broken wire from the original length of the wire
Length of the other broken wire=original length of wire -lenth of broken wire known
Length of broken wire=(7/8)m - (1/4)m=(5/8)m=0.625m
Hope that helped.!