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Can a triangle be formed with side lengths 15, 7, and 6? Explain

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Answer:no

Explanation:

There is a property with triangles that the sum of two sides of a triangle should always be greater than the 3rd side.

Here if we take the two smaller sides their sum is 7 + 8 = 15 which is equal to the third side.

So it is not possible to construct a triangle with sides 7, 8, and 15 respectively.

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