SOLUTION: Jenny wants to utilize a portion of her garden for growing flowers. Being a designer herself,she visualizes a triangular area with different lengths for eacn side. For this Jenny d
Question 137910: Jenny wants to utilize a portion of her garden for growing flowers. Being a designer herself,she visualizes a triangular area with different lengths for eacn side. For this Jenny decides to keep a side of the triangular area 5 feet shorter and the other 4 feet longer than the third side. She also wants to restrict the perimeter of the triangular aea to 29 feet, so that it does not cover a huge area of the garden. Determint the length of each side of the triangular area that Jenny has visualized. Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! a side of the triangular area 5 feet shorter and the other 4 feet longer than the third side. She also wants to restrict the perimeter of the triangular area to 29 feet. Determine the length of each side of the triangular area
:
Let x = length of 3rd side
then
(x+4) = length of the longer side
and
(x-5) = length of the shorter side
:
The perimeter equation:
x + (x+4) + (x-5) = 29
x + x + x + 4 - 5 = 29
3x - 1 = 29
3x = 29 + 1
3x = 30
x =
x = 10
:
The 3 sides: 14 by 10 by 5
