SOLUTION: A student has sticks of lengths 5 cm and 9 cm. She wants to use a third stick to form a triangle. What are the possible lengths of the third side?

Question 934039: A student has sticks of lengths 5 cm and 9 cm. She wants to use a third stick to form a triangle. What are the possible lengths of the third side?

Found 2 solutions by Techpriest, MathTherapy:
Answer by Techpriest(29) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Assuming that's she's trying to make a right triangle, we can use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the possible length.

The possible length can only be the square root of 109.
Answer by MathTherapy(10552) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

A student has sticks of lengths 5 cm and 9 cm. She wants to use a third stick to form a triangle. What are the possible lengths of the third side?

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