A 56-inch board is to be cut into three pieces so that the second piece is twice as long as the first piece and the third piece is 4 times as long as the first piece. Ifx represents the length of the first piece, find the lengths of all three pieces.
What is the length of the first piece?

Fiona joins a fruit of the month club. the entry cost was $25 and then she pays $18 per month. if she participates for 8 months, how much will she pay in all? how much in 10 months?

In factoring by grouping, what would you have for step 3 for the following? step 1: x^3 +5x^2 +4x+20 step 2: x^2 (x+5)+4(x+5) step 3: ?

Imogene invested $8,000 in a bank account that pays 8 percent simple interest at the end of each year. her friend invested the same amount in stocks where the growth of the investment is represented as 2,000 times the square root of 2 less than the time lapsed in years. if y1 and y2 represent the amount earned in dollars and t is the time lapsed in years, which system of equations correctly represents the situation?