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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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