SOLUTION: suppose you are going to cut a 10 ft metal into 3 pieces(with nothing left over) to make a right triangle. find 5 different ways to do the cuts to make 5 tight triangles with diffe
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Question 1048154: suppose you are going to cut a 10 ft metal into 3 pieces(with nothing left over) to make a right triangle. find 5 different ways to do the cuts to make 5 tight triangles with different side lengths
Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
As you divide the 10ft into different lengths, remember the Triangle Inequality Theorem which states that any side of any triangle is always shorter than the sum of the other two sides.
Therefore, you cannot do 5, 3, 2 because 3+2 = 5 but the sum has to be greater than 5. However, you can do 4.5, 3, 2.5 so I just gave you one.
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John
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