mary has 17 m of rope. She wishes to cut it in three pieces so that she has 3 m more than amanda, and amanda has 2 m less than Sarah.

Length of Sarah rope    = 6 m

Length of Amanda's rope  = 4 m

Length of Mary's rope  = 7 m

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the length of Sarah rope = x

Length of Amanda's rope= x - 2

Length of Mary's rope = (x - 2 ) + 3 = x - 2 + 3 = x + 1

Length of rope = 17 m

x + x - 2 + x + 1 = 17

Combine like terms

x + x + x - 2 + 1 = 17

       3x  - 1 = 17

Add 1 to both sides

3x = 17 + 1

3x = 18

Divide both sides by 3

x = 18/3

x = 6

Length of Sarah rope = x  = 6 m

Length of Amanda's rope= x - 2 = 6 - 2 = 4 m

Length of Mary's rope =   x + 1 = 6 + 1 = 7 m

the total estimated nappy use.=10,500,000

step-by-step explanation:

given that on an average the average baby uses 3528 napkins.

in a particular year 2014, the number of births were 299697 in new south wales.

rounding off the number of births to the nearest hundred thousand we have

no of birtsh = 300000

also rounding off the average usage to nearst thousand we get

average use of a baby = 3500

hence total number of nappy estimated to be used = 3500x300000

= 10,500,000

answer is 10,500,000 nappies