SOLUTION: if one side of an isosceles triangle is 7 cm,what would the other two sides measure?

Question 520873: if one side of an isosceles triangle is 7 cm,what would the other two sides measure?
Answer by jlshires(17) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
This question is impossible to answer.
Take for example, the fact that you don't know which side of the triangle is being talked about.
in an isoceles triangle, two sides are the same. If one side is 7 cm, but that side is the base and not one of the equal sides, you don't know what the other sides are.
If the 7 cm is one of the equal sides, than the other is also 7, but you don't know how long the base is.
In order to solve this problem, you need two more things. First, you need to know which side is being talked about. Second, you need to know what the angles of the triangle are, and then you can use the trigonomic functions of sine, cosine, and tangent to figure out the lengths of the sides.
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