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Question 1205499: Let $ABCDEFGH$ be right rectangular prism. The total surface area of the prism $1.$ Also, the sum of all the edges of the prism is $2.$ Find the length of the diagonal joining one corner of the prism to the opposite corner.
Answer by ikleyn(52890) (Show Source):
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Let ABCDEFGH be right rectangular prism. The total surface area of the prism is 1 square unit.
Also, the sum of all the edges of the prism is 2 units.
Find the length of the diagonal joining one corner of the prism to the opposite corner.
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Right rectangular prism has 12 edges: 4 edges in x-direction;
4 edges in y-direction and 4 edges in z-direction.
Let "a" be the length of any of four edges in x-direction;
"b" be the length of any of four edges in y-direction;
"c" be the length of any of four edges in z-direction.
We are given that
2ab + 2bc + 2ac = 1 (1) (The total surface area of the prism is 1 square unit)
We also are given that
4(a + b + c) = 2 (the sum of all the edges of the prism is 2 units)
so
a + b + c = 1/2. (2)
Square equality (2) (both sides) . You will get
a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + 2ab + 2bc + 2ac = 1/4.
Replace here 2ab + 2bc + 2ac by 1, based on (1). You will get then
a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + 1 = ,
which implies
a^2 + b^2 + c^2 = - 1,
or
a^2 + b^2 + c^2 = - .
Since the left side must be positive as the sum of the squares of real numbers,
while the right side is NEGATIVE, such equality is not possible - it is SELF-CONTRADICTORY.
From it, one should conclude that the described situation, as it is given in the post, is IMPOSSIBLE,
and with given data, this problem HAS NO SOLUTION.
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CONCLUSION : with the given data, the problem HAS NO SOLUTIONS.
Having wrong problem does not surprise me.
Every day at this forum, I see wrong and incorrect problems, sent
by mathematically illiterate visitors, who perform here a role of problems creators
(although they are absolutely unsuitable for this role).
It is sad to work on a potentially nice problem, to spend a time and to see at the end
that the problem is posed incorrectly.
It is sad to see that visitors post idiotic, semi-idiotic or degenerated " problems " to the forum.
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In correct formulation, the problem is solved in the lesson
- Problems on evaluating in Geometry
in this site.
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