Ms. johnson and ms. siple were folding report cards to send home to parents. the ratio of the numer of report cards ms. johnson folded to the number of report cards ms. siple folded is 2: 3. at the end of the day ms. johnson and ms siple folded 300 report cards how much did each person folded

S/j = 2/3 plug in the 200 folded by ms siple 200/j=2/3 j=300 total folded- 200+300=500

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