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UKMT Junior Kangaroo, 2024

Algebra Difficulty 1.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

Alisha has four paper strips of the same length. She glues two of them together with a 10 cm overlap to make a strip 50 cm long. With the other two strips, she wants to make a strip 56 cm long. How long, in cm, should the overlap be?

(A) $2$ (B) $4$ (C) $6$ (D) $8$ (E) $10$

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