document.write( "Question 675681: The sides of a triangle are 3x,(x+1) and (4x-3). Find the actual dimensions of the triangle.\r
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document.write( "Since your teacher said to use the Pythagorean you must have been\r\n" );
document.write( "told they were the sides of a RIGHT triangle, for that's the only\r\n" );
document.write( "kind of triangle the Pythagorean theorem is true for:\r\n" );
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document.write( "If the legs are 3x and (x+1), and the hypotenuse is (4x-3)² \r\n" );
document.write( "then the Pythagorean theorem gives us:\r\n" );
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document.write( "   a² +     b² =      c²\r\n" );
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document.write( "(3x)² + (x+1)² = (4x-3)²\r\n" );
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document.write( "Can you solve that?  If not post again asking how to solve\r\n" );
document.write( "that equation for x.  There are two solutions for x,\r\n" );
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document.write( "however only one of the two solutions gives all positive values\r\n" );
document.write( "for the sides of the right triangle when you substitute them\r\n" );
document.write( "for x in:\r\n" );
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document.write( "3x, (x+1) and (4x-3).\r\n" );
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