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You are asked to draw a triangle with side lengths of 3 inches, 4 inches, and 1 inch. How many triangles like this can you draw? A) one B) three C) two D) zero

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I think you can draw two of them.

As you walk around the triangle in the clockwise direction,
you can run into the sides in the order of

3 ==> 4 ==> 1

or in the order of

3 ==> 1 ==> 4 .

Those are mirror images of each other. So they're not congruent,
and I think they're considered different triangles.


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