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 each side. For this Jenny

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Question 182440: 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 each side. For this Jenny decides to keep a side of the triangular area 5 feet shorter than the third side and the other side 4 feet longer than the third side. She also wants to restrict the perimeter of the triangular area to a maximum of 29 feet, so that it does not cover a huge area of the garden. Determine the length of each side of the triangular area that Jenny has visualized.
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If the third side of the triangle measures x, then one of the other sides must be x - 5, and the other one x + 4.

If the perimeter is to be a maximum of 29 feet, then the sum of the measures of the sides must be less than or equal to 29:









So, one side is less than or equal to 10, another side is less than or equal to , and the last side is less than or equal to .

John