document.write( "Question 938776: the lengths of three sides of a triangle could not be which group of numbers.\r
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document.write( "Think of a big triangle drawn on the ground. \r\n" );
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document.write( "The shortest distance between two points is the straight line between them.\r\n" );
document.write( "Therefore, it must be shorter for us to walk straight from one end of the longest\r\n" );
document.write( "side to the other end of the longest side than it is to get there by walking\r\n" );
document.write( "around the other two sides to get there.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "So we add the smallest two numbers.  If what we get is greater than the largest\r\n" );
document.write( "number, then we have the sides of a triangle.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The smaller two are 5 and 7,  We add them and get 12.  12 is greater than \r\n" );
document.write( "the remaining side, 10, so 5, 7 and 10 could be the sides of a triangle.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The smaller two are 3 and 12,  We add them and get 15.  15 is greater than \r\n" );
document.write( "the remaining side, 14, so 12, 3 and 14 could be the sides of a triangle.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The smaller two are 1 and 3,  We add them and get 4.  4 is NOT greater than \r\n" );
document.write( "the remaining side, 5, so 5, 3 and 1 could NOT be the sides of a triangle.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The smaller two are 7 and 24,  We add them and get 31.  31 is greater than \r\n" );
document.write( "the remaining side, 25, so 7, 24 and 25 could be the sides of a triangle.\r\n" );
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