document.write( "Question 1193613: △ADE ~ △ABC.
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document.write( "The above solution is incorrect, because it is not given that either\r\n" );
document.write( "△ADE or △ABC are right triangles, as she has assumed. \r\n" );
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document.write( "However, there is not enough information given to solve your problem.\r\n" );
document.write( "Both of the figures below show two correct solutions to the problem\r\n" );
document.write( "using the given information.  You can check to be sure that all the\r\n" );
document.write( "given information is correct.  Yet, in the first case, BC is 24, and\r\n" );
document.write( "in the second case below, BC is 28.  There are an infinite number of\r\n" );
document.write( "possible solutions.  You have obviously omitted something that was\r\n" );
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