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A man wants to cut three lengths from a single piece of board of length 91cm. The second length is to be 3cm longer than the shortest and the third length is to be twice as long as the shortest. Find the length of the shortest piece.

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Let the Length of shortest piece be s

Second piece =s+3
Third piece =2s

Now, s+s+3+2s=914s=88s=22

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