SOLUTION: An isosceles triangle has a perimeter of 16 inches. If the length of one of the two equal sides is 5 inches, what is the length of the other side?

Question 776158: An isosceles triangle has a perimeter of 16 inches. If the length of one of the two equal sides is 5 inches, what is the length of the other side?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
An isosceles triangle is a triangle with two equal sides.
Let sides be and two equal sides .
Then a perimeter is .
If an isosceles triangle has a perimeter of , then we have:

If the length of one of the two sides is , then and
or ....now solve for to find the length of the other side

...the length of the other side

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