SOLUTION: An artist is creating tiles to use in a project. Each tile is to be in the shape of a right triangle. The shortest side of a tile is to be 4 inches long. The next shortest side

The shortest side = 4
The next shortest side = x, so x > 4
The longest side, the hypotenuse, is 

[That's probably all you wanted, but I'll continue]

The longest side of any triangle must be shorter than the
sum of the shorter sides, so



Start with 



Square both sides



Add 16 to both sides:





Take the positive square roots of both sides:







Changing to <



Since 

 

Edwin