A109 length of ribbon is to be cut into three pieces. the longest piece is to be 36 inches longer than the shortest piece, and the third piece is to be half the length of the longest piece. find the length of each piece.

in geometry, parallel lines are lines in a plane which do not meet; that is, two lines in a plane that do not intersect or touch each other at any point are said to be parallel. by extension, a line and a plane, or two planes, in three-dimensional euclidean space that do not share a point are said to be parallel.