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Do not comment if you aren’t going to . create a real-life situation and create a system and show how it might be modeled algebraically with a system of equations (or inequalities) show all work include a few sentences explaining the situation, your variables of choice and what each represents, and how you would set it up and solve it algebraically. !

In the diagram, the ratio of ab to ae is (1/2) . what is the ratio of the length of to the length of ?

An electrician cuts a 136 foot long piece of cable. one piece is 16 feet less than 3 times the length of the other piece. find the length of each piece