SOLUTION: While drawing the cross-section of your triangular shaped cabinet, you wanted to insert a smaller triangular shaped cabinet whose vertices are the midpoint of the bigger cabinet th

Question 1176018: While drawing the cross-section of your triangular shaped cabinet, you wanted to insert a smaller triangular shaped cabinet whose vertices are the midpoint of the bigger cabinet that you want to construct. The bigger triangle is ALI and the smaller triangle is DOW. ON the bigger triangle, AL measures 362mm and LI measures 291mm. The vertices of the smaller triangle DOW are the midpoints of the three sides of the bigger triangle. Both the triangles you constructed are right triangles. Find the perimeter of triangle DOW.
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Faulty problem description -- not enough information is given to answer the question.

The vertices of the smaller triangle are the midpoints of the sides of the larger triangle. From that, we know that the two triangles are similar, so the perimeter of the small triangle is half the perimeter of the large triangle.

But the description of the problem doesn't tell us whether the longer of the two given sides is the longer leg of the larger right triangle, or it hypotenuse. Therefore we can't determine the perimeter of the large triangle; and therefore we can't determine the perimeter of the small triangle.

RELATED QUESTIONS
Jackson has the following pieces of scrap wood to make into a triangular shaped... (answered by Alan3354)

What is the maximum number of triangular pieces which can be cut from a sheet of plywood? (answered by solver91311)

Scott is making a special box to hold an irregularly shaped statue with a volume of 1757... (answered by KMST)

find the ratio of the longest side to the perimeter of the right triangular shaped... (answered by fractalier)

What is the ratio of the longest side to the perimeter of the right-triangular- shaped... (answered by solver91311)

Find the ratio of the longest side to the perimeter of the right-triangular-shaped... (answered by ikleyn)

A farmer has a triangular shaped field, FLD. DF-350m, FL= 240m and DL=400m. Calculate the (answered by Alan3354,ikleyn)

the triangular-shaped patio has sides 23ft, 17ft, and 26ft. Find the number of square... (answered by josgarithmetic)

A triangular-shaped piece of paper has an area of 36 square centimeters and a base of 6... (answered by checkley77)