What is the length of the two pieces if the pipe is 208 inches long and is cut into two and one piece is three times the length of the other?

Let the length of the shorter piece be ( x ) inches. Then, the longer piece would be ( 3x ) inches. Since the total length of the pipe is 208 inches, we have the equation ( x + 3x = 208 ). Solving this gives ( 4x = 208 ), so ( x = 52 ) inches for the shorter piece and ( 3x = 156 ) inches for the longer piece.