Question

Rita has a piece of 18 M long cloth it is divided into two parts in such a way that the first part is 4m longer than the other parts find the length of the smaller part

Answer 1

(x+x+4)=18
2x+4=18
2x=18-4
2x=14
x=14/2
x=7

Answer 2

the answer is x=7 as else is taken to be x