SOLUTION: A wire is first bent into the shape of a rectangle with width 8 cm and length 10 cm. Then the wire is unbent and reshaped into a triangle. If each side of the triangle has equal l

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Question 1193787: A wire is first bent into the shape of a rectangle with width 8 cm and length 10 cm. Then the wire is unbent and reshaped into a triangle. If each side of the
triangle has equal length, what is this length?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The perimeters are the same.

If x is the length of each side of the triangle, then
2%2A8%2B2%2A10=3x
very easily solvable