Question

An isosceles triangle has side lengths of 15.6 units and 20.33 units. What is the greatest possible value of the perimeter of the triangle?

Answer 1

56.26

Explanation:

An isosceles triangle has two sides that are the same length, and one side that is the same length. We have two sizes, so two find the greatest possible perimeter we must assume that the greater size is the value for the two sides, and the smaller size the value for the single side. In other words:

`x = 15.6 + 2(20.33)`

`x = 56.26`