My right sided triangle has 4x on the base, 2x to the left and 3x+4 what is the perimeter of the triangle and it must be greater than or equal to 85 inches?
1 Answer
The perimeter of this triangle is
Explanation:
So the first step is to put them all into one equation (we first are finding
Then you combine like terms and end up with:
Then subtract the
Next, divide the
Since you found the
individual equations, to find the length of all the sides.
So the base would be
So to the left you get
Then the last side is
The final step is to add ALL the sides together:
So we have
So the final answer is