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Question 396920: What type of triangle has an angle measures 2x degrees, x+15 degrees and 5x+15?
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Question 397133: Do there exist triangles with the following sides? a)7,5,6 b)13,8,8 c)5,4,10
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Question 397236: In triangle ABC, the measure of angle A=36 AB=22, and AC=12; in triangle DEF the measure of angle D=36, DE=44, and DF=24. Justify whether or not the triangles are similar.
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Question 397286: A right triangle has legs of 7 centimeters and hypotenuse of 18 centimeters. whats the length of its other leg?
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Question 397725: How could I find the altitude of the triangle with only two sides given?
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Question 397728: If the altitude of an equilateral triangle is 15, find the length of the sides.
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Question 397845: Why can't you draw a triangle with two right angles?

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Question 397845: Why can't you draw a triangle with two right angles?

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Question 397679: The perimeter of a triangle is 37 centimeters. Two sides of the triangle are equal; each of these is 5 centimeters more than the first side. What is the lengths of each side of the triangle
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Question 398124: why in a right angled triangle the hypotenuse is double than the side facing 30 degree angle
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Question 398231: draw a triangle with a 3-inch side between two 40 degree angles. then classify the triangle by its angles and by its sides
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Question 398245: doing special right triangles (30-60-90) - if you are given a 30-60-90 triangle and the hypotenuse is 12square roots of 3 and you are not given the other lengths of the legs but you need to find the short legs length ( short leg is x and long leg is y ) what do you do to find it ?
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Question 398246: two sides of a triangle have lengths 6 and 8. what lengths are possible for the third side? explain
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Question 398246: two sides of a triangle have lengths 6 and 8. what lengths are possible for the third side? explain
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Question 398251: measure of the acute angle in a right triangle are in the ration of 6:2 ,find the measure of the smaller angle?
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Question 398255: two sides of a triangle have lengths 7 and 17. which expression describes the length of the third side?
a)greater than 10 and less 24
b)greater than ten and at most 24
c)at least ten and at most 24
d)at least ten and less than 24
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Question 398259: Which three lengths could be the lengths of the sides of a triangle?
a) 10cm, 15cm, 24cm
b) 14cm, 9cm, 23cm
c) 6cm, 25cm, 10cm
d) 20cm, 7cm, 7cm
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Question 398257: two sides of a triangle have lengths 5 and 14. Which inequalities represent the possible lengths for the third side,x?
a) 9 b) 9 c) 5 d) 9
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Question 398475: I have side a= x-2, side b=x and side c=x+2 and it is a right triangle.. I am supposed to solve for x
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Question 398514: The question is: 'Which set of numbers represents the lengths of the sides of a triangle?' and the choices are just different sets of numbers. how would i figues that out?
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Question 398510: Determine the measure of angle B of triangle ABC given the following information: C = 120° a = 6 b = 2, and my options are: 25°, 46°, 14°
and 19°.

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Question 398763: I need help figuring out how to solve this question. The perimeter of a triangle is 96 inches, the shortest side is 6 inches less than it's middle side, and it's longest side measures 18 inches more than it's middle side. What are the lengths of all 3 sides. I don't have a clue how to begin.
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Question 398836: A triangle has side lengths of 18 & 13. Which of the following could not be a measure of the third side?
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Question 398748: i have a triangle whos first side is 84 degrees and the other is 63 degrees,what is the third side?
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Question 398924: if a triangle is 40 degrees and one side 120 degrees is it equilateral, isosceles, or scalene.Can someone please show me how to do this I do not understand it at all
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Question 398907: Stacy works due north of home. Her husband, Sam works due east. They leave for work at the same time. By the time Stacy is 7 miles from home, the distance between Stacy and Sam is 1 mile more than Sam's distance from home. How far from home is Sam.
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Question 399077: C2=A2+B2, what is the length of side C in the figure?
c=?, b=20", a=15"
right triangle bottom is a, right is b (they make up the right angle, c is the angled side to solve for
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Question 399291: Two vertices of a triangle are located at (3,0) and (7,0)on a coordinate plane. What are the possible positions for the third vertex if the perimeter of the triangle is 12 units?
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Question 399336: can a triangle ever have more than one acute exterior angle? explain.
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Question 399369: Could someone please help me with this? assume this triangle is isosceles on the E end it is 72 degrees on the outside between E and f it has a 5 on the outside of E and D there is a 5 I need to find m D and m F.
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Question 399563: If you have a triangle and the measures of the triangle are 78 and 36 degrees,what is the missing number?
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Question 399606: top of triangle 2x bottom right and left 4x & 4x need to find the measurement of each angle???
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Question 399629: find the perimeter of a right triangle with legs that measure 5cm and 9cm round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 399732: The area of a triangle is 26 square meters. What is the base if the height is 3 meters.
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Question 399767: What is the height of a triangle with a base of 20 inches and an area of 50 square inches?
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Question 400031: How do I calculate the remaining angles of a triangle if the base and height of a triangle are known: example; the base is .625, the height is 1.25 and the known angle between the base and height is 90 degrees.
Thank you,
Ted Williams
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Question 400073: What is a unique triangle?
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Question 400118: If the base of an isoceles triangle is 10,
What can we say about the length of the
Legs?
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Question 400263: Draw a scalene triange with an area of 40 and a perimeter of 11. Is this possible? What are the dimensions?
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Question 400408: well what is a isosceles triangle and the scalene triangle?
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Question 400503: Compute the length of the other two legs of a right triangle with a hypotenuse of 5 feet and one angle of 30 degrees
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Question 400493: what is the perimeter of a right triangle measuring 11 yd base and 60 yd height
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Question 400575: what is the value of x if the acute angles of a right triangle measure 8x° and 12x°.?
can you please do it explaining the steps along the way.?
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Question 400583: If point P is at the center of the circle, and AP = 12 inches and arc AB = 60°, what is the length of line segment AP?
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Question 400679: please help me solve this. if the hypotonuse i stwo what are the 2 missing side lentgths and area?
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