document.write( "Question 934039: A student has sticks of lengths 5 cm and 9 cm. She wants to use a third stick to form a triangle. What are the possible lengths of the third side?
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Assuming that's she's trying to make a right triangle, we can use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the possible length.
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\n" ); document.write( " $\"+5%5E2+%2B+9%5E2+=+c%5E2+\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"+25+%2B+81+=+c%5E2+\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"+106+=+c%5E2+\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"+sqrt%28109%29+=+c+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "The possible length can only be the square root of 109. \n" ); document.write( "

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