True or false? if you took a true "if-then" statement and reversed the clauses, the new statement would also be true.

Reversing the clauses of an "if-then" statement only sometimes makes the new statement true, so it isn't true or false. For example, reversing the clauses of "if 1=x, then x=1" makes the new statement true, but reversing the clauses of "if x=2, then |x|=2" doesn't.

Best answer that i found on yahoo ok   set :   x= length of 2nd piece in cm  x- 3= length of 1st piece in cm  x-4= length of 3rd piece in cm  then since you know they all came from the 20 cm ribbon you add them together and set them equal to 20x+ x-3 +x-4 = 20  3x - 7= 20  3x= 27  x= 9  the shortest piece is the third piece which is x- 4  x-4  9-4 = 5  the length of the smallest piece is 5 cm.  the other lengths are  9 cm  6 cm