SOLUTION: A triangle has two equal sides and a third side that is five inches more than the length of the other two sides. if the perimeter of the triangle is 32 inches, what is the length

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Question 733077: A triangle has two equal sides and a third side that is five inches more than the length of the other two sides. if the perimeter of the triangle is 32 inches, what is the length of the longest side?
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The perimeter is the sum of the measures of the sides. Since you want to know the measure of the long side, let represent the measure of the long side. Then the measure of each of the other two sides must be . So:



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