SOLUTION: toms uncle owns a triangle piece of land. The perimeter fence that surrounds the land measures 378 yards. The shortest side is 30 yards longer than one half of the longest side. Th

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Question 161245: toms uncle owns a triangle piece of land. The perimeter fence that surrounds the land measures 378 yards. The shortest side is 30 yards longer than one half of the longest side. The second longest side is 2 yards shorter than the longest side. What is the length of each side?
Answer by jojo14344(1513)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Remember: ----------------------> EQN 1
where



Going back EQN 1,





LONGEST side (a)
2ND LONGEST (b)
SHORTEST (c)
Check via EQN 1:


Thank you,
Jojo

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