SOLUTION: Jenny wants to utilize a portion of her garden for growing flowers. Being a designer herself, she visualizes a triangular area with different lengths for each side. For this Jenny

Question 184897: Jenny wants to utilize a portion of her garden for growing flowers. Being a designer herself, she visualizes a triangular area with different lengths for each side. For this Jenny decides to keep a side of the triangular area 3 feet shorter and the other 2 feet longer than the third side. She also wants to restrict the perimeter of the triangular area to 32 feet, so that it does not cover a huge area of the garden. Determine the maximum length of each side of the triangular area that Jenny has visualized
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let x be the measure of the third side, then the first side must be x - 3 and the second side must be x + 2.

The perimeter is the sum of the lengths of the sides, so the maximum length of the third side will be found by solving:

for x. Then subtract 3 for the first side and add 2 for the second side.

John

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