SOLUTION: what is the side length of an equilateral triangle with a perimeter of 36 2/3 inches?

Question 830183: what is the side length of an equilateral triangle with a perimeter of 36 2/3 inches?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You could do it in your head.
EQUILATERAL!

You see?*

*Let me adjust what I said.
If you are in high school, you should be able to do this in your head. If in elementary school, maybe you are still dealing with Number Sense and common arithmetic, and seeing how to handle the 36 and the requires skill that you have not had much experience with yet.
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One will become accustomed to some products of 12 and see some simple computations to do on simple fractions, like cut into three parts, or dividing it by 3...... , easy enough to handle this in your head.
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