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Pablo folds a straw into a triangle with side lengths of 4x -2 inches and 4x -1 inched . The perimeter of the triangle is 12x -6 inched . If x =1.5 what was the length of the straw before it was folded
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Pablo folds a straw into a triangle with side lengths of 4x -2 inches and 4x -1 inched . The perimeter of the triangle is 12x -6 inched . If x =1.5 what was the length of the straw before it was folded ?

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Answer:

21

Explanation:

User Pascut
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If x = 1.5, than the length of the straw before it is folded is 21 inches. You can find this in the following steps :

12(1.5)^2 -6 = length

12(2.25) -6 =

27 -6 =

21

Your answer is: 21 inches

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