document.write( "Question 178241: Jenny wants to utilize a portion of her garden for growing flowers. Being a designer herself, she visualizes a triangular area with different lengths for each side. For this Jenny decides to keep a side of the triangular area 3 feet shorter and the other 2 feet longer than the third side. She also wants to restrict the perimeter of the triangular area to 32 feet, so that it does not cover a huge area of the garden. Determine the maximum length of each side of the triangular area that Jenny has visualized. \n" ); document.write( "
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Let x = length of third side
\n" ); document.write( "then from: \"3 feet shorter\"
\n" ); document.write( "x-3 = second side
\n" ); document.write( "and from: \"2 feet longer than the third side\"
\n" ); document.write( "x+2 = first side
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\n" ); document.write( "Because the perimeter was given as 32 feet we have:
\n" ); document.write( "32 = x + (x-3) + (x+2)
\n" ); document.write( "32 = x + x-3 + x+2
\n" ); document.write( "32 = 3x-1
\n" ); document.write( "33 = 3x
\n" ); document.write( "11 feet = x (third side)
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\n" ); document.write( "second side:
\n" ); document.write( "x-3 = 11-3 = 8 feet
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\n" ); document.write( "first side:
\n" ); document.write( "x+2 = 11+2 = 13 feet\r
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