A piece of cloth of length 3.5 m is divided into two smaller parts in the ratio of 2:5. What is the length of the

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A piece of cloth of length 3.5 m is divided into two smaller parts in the ratio of 2:5. What is the length of the shorter part?

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

total length of a cloth is 3.5m ratio is 2:5

let shorter part ratio be 2x

let longer part ratio be 5x total ratio is 7x

so 7x = 3.5

x=3.5/7=0.5

length of the shorter part is 2x

i.e=2(0.5)