The lengths of the sides of a triangle in inches are three consecutive integers. The length of the shortest side is of the perimeter. What is the length of the longest side?
Pick one
Solution
Let , , and be the lengths of the sides of the triangle. Then the perimeter of the triangle is . Using the fact that the length of the smallest side is of the perimeter, it follows that:
. The longest side is then . Thus, answer choice is correct.
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