A student is growing two plants for a science experiment. Each plant was a different height at the start of the experiment. Plant A was given only water and plant B was given water and food. The system of equations show how the heights of the plants, y, in inches have change over x weeks. Plant A: y = 8 + ½ x Plant B: y = 4 + (5/4) x

Best answer that i found on yahoo ok   set :   x= length of 2nd piece in cm  x- 3= length of 1st piece in cm  x-4= length of 3rd piece in cm  then since you know they all came from the 20 cm ribbon you add them together and set them equal to 20x+ x-3 +x-4 = 20  3x - 7= 20  3x= 27  x= 9  the shortest piece is the third piece which is x- 4  x-4  9-4 = 5  the length of the smallest piece is 5 cm.  the other lengths are  9 cm  6 cm

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