A machine cuts a strip of carpet into 2 pieces. the length of the smaller piece is 5 meters greater than 1/4 the length of the larger piece. If the length of the smaller piece is 12 meters, the length of the bigger piece is (A, 13.5 B, 14 C, 20 D, 28) meters and the total length of the carpet is (A- 25.5, B- 26, C- 32, D- 40) meters

To keep cylindrical tanks from tipping over, a designer is planning to enlarge the original area of the base by 50%. the new tank should have the same volume as the original. how should the designer change the height of the tank? a: make it 50% taller than the height of the original tank. b: make it 6623% taller than the height of the original tank c: make it 3313% shorter than the height of the original tank d: make it 50% shorter than the height of the original tank.