SOLUTION: The shorter sides of an acute triangle are x cm and 2x cm. The longest side of the triangle is 15 cm. What is the smallest possible whole-number value of x?

Question 986124: The shorter sides of an acute triangle are x cm and 2x cm. The longest side of the triangle is 15 cm.
What is the smallest possible whole-number value of x?
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The sum of any two sides of a triangle must be greater than the remaining side.
so

The smallest whole number greater than 5 is 6

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