SOLUTION: The lengths of the sides of an isosceles triangle are represented by 2x + 5, 2x - 6, and 3x-3. What are the lengths of the sides of the triangle?

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Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

If this is an isosceles triangle, then two of the sides must be equal to each other.

That is an absurdity, no value of x makes the statement true, so those are not the two equal sides.

The side of a triangle cannot have a negative measure, so those are not the two equal sides.

So these are the equal sides and they measure 21. The third side is

John

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