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Question 384278: It is believed that surveyors in ancient Egypt laid out right angles using a rope that they bent into the shape of a triangle. The rope had eleven equally spaced knots along its length that divided the rope into twelve sections. What Pythagorean Triple could the surveyors use this rope to make?
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Question 384281: the perimeter of a triangle is 31 cm. sides #1 and #2 have epual length, while side #3 is one centimeter shorter than twice the length of side #1. how long is each side
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Question 384446: Please help me solve this equation. Primeter of a right triangle is 12 feet and one of it's legs measurae 3 feet . How do you find the lengh of the other leg and the hypotenuse
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Question 384471: I am really confused with this problem and I'm not sure how to find out the answer...

The length of the hypotenuse of a 30-60-90 triangle is 10. Find the length of the two legs.
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Question 384945: In an isosceles triangle, if the base is longer than either leg, then would the measure of each base angle be greater than the measure of the vertex angle?
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Question 385142: Tell whether the triangle is a right triangle. If so, find the length of the altitude to the hypotenuse. Round decimal answers to the nearest tenth.
Side AB-8
Side BC-12
Side CA-4root13
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Question 385381: in a triangle, two angles have measures of 17 degrees and 59 degrees. find the measure of the third angle
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Question 385394: Could a triangle have angle measures 46, 12, and 122? Explain?
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Question 385571: find the range of possible lengths for the third side:
4,4
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Question 385595: W + (W + 10)+50 = 180
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Question 385720: Find the longest side of Triangle ABC if A=70 B=(2x-10) C=(2x-10)
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Question 386241: The sides of an isosceles triangle have lenghts of 2x+4, x+8. The base has lenght 5x-2. What is the lenght of the base?
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Question 386234: an isosceles triangle has an area of 98 cm^2 fined the length of each leg
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Question 386390: The perimeter of a equilateral triangle is 13 inches more than the perimeter of a square, and the side of the triangle is 6 inches longer than the side of the square. Find the side of the triangle.
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Question 386392: If I have a triangle and one one side it has 2x+5 and on another side it has 4x-3 how do I find out the perimeter of the triangle?
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Question 386410: How can you find the other 2 side lengths if you only have 1?
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Question 386488: Use the graphs of y=2x+6, 3x+2y=19 and y=2, which contain the sides of a triangle.
1. Find the coordinates of the vertices of the triangle.
2. Find the area of the triangle
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Question 386754: The side is 10 in. and the acute angle is 37 degrees. How to find the perimeter of the triangle?
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Question 386032: What type of triangle is one with 80 degrees, 73 degrees, and 27 degrees? Obtuse, accute, or oblique?
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Question 386773: Alright, this is kind of hard to explain, but I'll try to do my best.
I have a triangle. It's slanted. The side to the far left (looks kind of like a base) is side x. across from the "base" there's a segment, used so that it splits the ttriangle into one smaller triangle and one smallish quadrilateral. The length of this segment is 8. The top of the quadrilateral is y, the bottom is 4. The top part of the smaller triangle is 5, and the bottom part is 7.
I'm supposed to find x and y. I've attempted calling it a midsegment, however the segment does not bisect anything. I can't use the pythagorean theory because I can't tell if it's a 90 degree angle or not.
Please help!
Thanks so much,
Katie
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Question 386995: an isosceles right triangle has a hypotenuse that measures 12 inches. find the length of each leg (round to the nearest hundredth).
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Question 386986: find the value of x in these special triangles.
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please help me
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Question 387028: how do i find the area of a triangle?
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Question 387028: how do i find the area of a triangle?
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Question 387140: two vertical poles have heights of 6 and 12 ft. A rope is streched from the top of each pole to the bottom of the other. How far above the ground do the ropes cross?
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Question 387188: classify the type of triangle the following sets of side lengths can make: 4.5, 7.5, 6

same question different numbers: 3, 5, 9

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Question 386711: Triangle ABC is an isosceles triangle, where angle B is the vertex angle. If BC = 10x-4 , AC= 2x+18 , and AB= 6x+32, find the value of x.
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Question 386725: please help my solve this problem.
triangles ABC and AFD are vertical congruent equilateral triangles. Find x and y. 2x+9 5x-12 6y
2x+9 = 5x-12
21+3x
7=x
how do i find y?
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Question 387274: the perimeter of a triangle is 30 inches. The first side of the triangle is 1 inch longer than the second side. The second side is 7 inches longer than the third side. Where is the length of each side of the triangle?
Let x the third side.Then x+7 is the second,and x+7+1 is the first...
So we have:
x+x+7+x+8=30
Then 3x+15=30
3x=30-15
3x=15
x=15/3
x=5
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Question 387278: Isosceles triangle has a base length of 30 and height of 8. What is the length of the other two sides?
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Question 387278: Isosceles triangle has a base length of 30 and height of 8. What is the length of the other two sides?
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Question 387312: If a triangle has side lengths of 9 cm, 12 cm, and 15 cm, what type of a triangle is it?
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Question 387366: A right triangle has legs of length 3x and 4x and hypotenuse of length 75. What are the lengths of the legs of the triangle. How do you work this out step by step. Thanks
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Question 387508: find, correct to the nearest degree the three angles of a triange with vertices A(0,3,3) B(-2,1,1) C(1,5,-1)
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Question 387561: A right triangle has the hypotenuse of c=12 cm (centimeters) and an angle a=30degrees side a, opposite angle A, equals?
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Question 387693: how do you find the length of the altitude of a triangle when given the hypotenuse. Used for 30-6-90 degree triangle. and radical form. thanks
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Question 387963: A right triangle has sides of length 12 and 18. Which of these sides will have the smallest angle opposite its side
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Question 387888: in triangle abc; ab is congruent to bc, if the measure of angle a is 45, what is the measure of angle b. expain how you go it please and thankyou.
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Question 387831: A triangle has a base of length 13 and the other two sides are equal in length. If the lengths of the sides of the triangle are integers, what is the shortest possible length of a side? ______
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Question 388229: Make true that in the triangle with a right angle hypotenuse is bigger than every catet..plz hepl me.....
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Question 388359: the measure of each base angle of an isosceles 21 more than the measure of the vertex angle. find the measure of each angle of the triangle.
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Question 388171: Find the measures of the sides of triangle ABC and clissify each triangle by its sides. A(5,4),B(3,-1),C(7,-1)
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Question 388485: What is the difference between a 30-60-90 degree triangle and a 45-45-90 degree triangle.
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