A rope is 66 feet long. It is cut into two pieces such that one piece is half the length of the other. What is the length of the longer piece of rope?

Let the longer piece be x feet. The shorter piece is half as long, or x/2, so the two pieces total x + x/2 = 66; solving gives x = 44. The longer piece is 44 feet, choice D.

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