SOLUTION: Shelbie has been asked to construct as many unique triangles as she can that have all sides of integer length, one side of length 5 cm, and a perimeter less than or equal to 16 cm.

Question 1084250: Shelbie has been asked to construct as many unique triangles as she can that have all sides of integer length, one side of length 5 cm, and a perimeter less than or equal to 16 cm.

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Triangles can be constructed with the length of the 
3 sides indicated by the following 15 triples:

(1cm,5cm,5cm), (2cm,4cm,5cm), (2cm,5cm,5cm), (2cm,5cm,6cm), (3cm,3cm,5cm),
(3cm,4cm,5cm), (3cm,5cm,5cm), (3cm,5cm,6cm), (3cm,5cm,7cm), (4cm,4cm,5cm),
(4cm,5cm,5cm), (4cm,5cm,6cm), (4cm,5cm,7cm), (5cm,5cm,5cm), (5cm,5cm,6cm).

Edwin

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