SOLUTION: given: triangle ABC Perimeter = 15 height = x+1 base = x find the value of x

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Question 662091: given:
triangle ABC
Perimeter = 15
height = x+1
base = x
find the value of x
Answer by kevwill(135) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There is not enough information in the problem description to find a single value for x. Is this a specific type of triangle? Is there a diagram with the original problem that puts some constraints on the triangle?

Given any sufficiently small x, I can always construct a triangle with a perimeter of 15, even if x = 0.001