The carpenters
The carpenters cut the beam. Half of the cut pieces were 1 meter long, a quarter of the pieces were two meters long, and they cut the remaining 8 meters of the beam into two equal parts.
- What was the length of the original beam?
- What part of the original beam was cut into meter pieces?
- What was the length of the original beam?
- What part of the original beam was cut into meter pieces?
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