SOLUTION: If a wire is First bent into the shape of a triangle each side of the triangle is 14 centimeters long then the wires on Matt and reshaped into a rectangle if the length of the rect

Question 1054519: If a wire is First bent into the shape of a triangle each side of the triangle is 14 centimeters long then the wires on Matt and reshaped into a rectangle if the length of the rectangle is 15 centimeters what is its width?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If a wire is First bent into the shape of a triangle each side of the triangle is 14 centimeters long.
Note: So the wire is 3*14 = 52 cm long
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Then the wire is reshaped into a rectangle. If the length of the rectangle is 15 centimeters what is its width?
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Perimeter = 2(length + width)
52 = 2(15+w)
26 = 15+w
width = 11 cm
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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