SOLUTION: the perimeter of a triangle is 73cm. the triangle is isosceles now, but if you lengthened the base by 5 cm and shortened each side by 6cm it would be equilateral. find the base of
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Question 961876: the perimeter of a triangle is 73cm. the triangle is isosceles now, but if you lengthened the base by 5 cm and shortened each side by 6cm it would be equilateral. find the base of the original triangle.
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the perimeter of a triangle is 73cm. the triangle is isosceles now, but if you lengthened the base by 5 cm and shortened each side by 6cm it would be equilateral. find the base of the original triangle.
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let b = the base of the original triangle
let s = two equal sides
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"the perimeter of a triangle is 73cm."
b + 2s = 73
" the triangle is isosceles now, but if you lengthened the base by 5 cm and shortened each side by 6cm it would be equilateral."
(sides would be equal)
(b+5) = (s-6)
b - s = -6 - 5
b - s = -11
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Use elimination with these two equations
b + 2s = 73
b - s = -11
-------------Subtraction eliminates b, find s
0 + 3s = 84
s = 84/3
s = 28 cm, the equal side of the original triangle
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" find the base of the original triangle."
Use b + 2s = 73
b + 2(28) = 73
b = 73 - 56
b = 17 cm the original base
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Confirm this
"lengthened the base by 5 cm and shortened each side by 6cm it would be equilateral. "
17 + 5 = 28 - 6
22 = 22
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