SOLUTION: A wire is first bent into the shape of a rectangle with width 8 cm and length 10 cm. Then the wire is unbent and reshaped into a triangle. If each side of the triangle has equal l

Question 1193787: A wire is first bent into the shape of a rectangle with width 8 cm and length 10 cm. Then the wire is unbent and reshaped into a triangle. If each side of the
triangle has equal length, what is this length?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The perimeters are the same.

If x is the length of each side of the triangle, then

very easily solvable
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