SOLUTION: Having finished fencing the perimeter of a triangular piece of land, Tony observed that the second side was just 10 feet short of being twice as long as the first side, and the thi

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Question 640600: Having finished fencing the perimeter of a triangular piece of land, Tony observed that the second side was just 10 feet short of being twice as long as the first side, and the third side was 50 feet longer than the first side. If he used 684 feet of fencing, what are the lengths of the three sides?
(Perimeter= side 1 + side 2 + side 3)
Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let be the measure of the first side. Then is the measure of the second side, and is the measure of the third side.



Solve for , then calculate , and .

John

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