SOLUTION: the base of an isosceles traingle has legth 10. what can you say about the leght of the legs?

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Question 392699: the base of an isosceles traingle has legth 10. what can you say about the leght of the legs?
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Hi

Let x represent the length of each of the legs of this isosoles triangle

Base = 10   |Sum of the Lengths of two sides of a triangle 

must be greater then length of the 3rd side

 2x >10    

  x > 5