SOLUTION: One side of a triangle is 1 in. longer than the shortest side and is 1 in. shorter than the longest side. The permiter is 17 in. Find the dimensions of the triangle.
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Question 334265: One side of a triangle is 1 in. longer than the shortest side and is 1 in. shorter than the longest side. The permiter is 17 in. Find the dimensions of the triangle.
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I'm going to go way out on a limb here and presume that your word(?) permiter actually means perimeter.
Let 
represent the measure of the "one side" of the triangle. Then the shortest side must be 
and the longest side must be 
. Since the perimeter is the sum of the sides, you can write:
Just solve for and the other two sides are trivial after that.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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