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Question 151698: Jenny wants to utilize a portion of her garden for growing flowers. Being a designer herself, she visualizes a triangular area with different lenghts for each side. For this Jenny decides to keep a side of the triangular area 6 feet shorter and the other 5 feet longer than the third side. She also wants to restrict the perimeter of the triangular area to 29 feet, so that it does not cover a huge area of the garden. Determine the lenght of each side of the triangular area that Jenny has visualized.: Jenny wants to utilize a portion of her garden for growing flowers. Being a designer herself, she visualizes a triangular area with different lenghts for each side. For this Jenny decides to keep a side of the triangular area 6 feet shorter and the other 5 feet longer than the third side. She also wants to restrict the perimeter of the triangular area to 29 feet, so that it does not cover a huge area of the garden. Determine the lenght of each side of the triangular area that Jenny has visualized.
Answer by jojo14344(879) (Show Source):
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Okay, we know adding the 3 sides of a triangle gives us the right?
Let's appoint "x" as measurement of the sides and based the conditions on this measurement.
1st side: She decided one side to be 6 feet shorter, =
2nd side: She wants the other side 5 feet longer, =
3rd side:
Given , therefor we can get the side by adding the three:

--------->

------------> 3rd side
--------------> 1st side
--------------> 2nd side
Checking,

Thank you,
Jojo