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Geometry Difficulty 2.4 Junior Find the answer

A triangle with integral sides has perimeter 88. The area of the triangle is

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Solution

The shortest side must be 11 or 22. However none of (1,1,6),(1,2,5),(1,3,4)(1,1,6),(1,2,5),(1,3,4) form triangles, so the shortest side must be 22. Then (2,2,4)(2,2,4) is degenerate, so the sides must be (2,3,3)(2,3,3).
This can be cut in half and reassembled into a rectangle with one side 11 and diagonal 33. By Pythagoras its area is then 222\sqrt2 which means A\fbox{A}

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