SOLUTION: Hello, -The length of the sides of a triangle are 7, 8 and 10. If the length of the longest side of a similar triangle is 25, What is the length of the shortest side of this tri

Question 357410: Hello,
-The length of the sides of a triangle are 7, 8 and 10. If the length of the longest side of a similar triangle is 25, What is the length of the shortest side of this triangle?
-If the number of degrees in a base angle of an isosceles triangle is four times the number of degrees in the vertex angle, What is the number of degrees in a base angle of the triangle?
Thank You.
Answer by edjones(8007) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
25/10=2.5
7*2.5=17.5 length of the shortest side of this triangle.
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Ed
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