Question

The distance around a triangle is 32 centimeters. If two sides are equal and the length of the third side is 10 centimeters, what is the length of each of the other two sides?

Answer 1

• 11 centimeters

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Let's call the length of each of the two equal sides x and perimeter P.

Then we can set up an equation:

• P = x + x + 10
• P = 2x + 10

We know that the perimeter is 32 centimeters, so we can substitute:

• 2x + 10 = 32
• 2x = 22
• x = 11

Therefore, each of the two equal sides has a length of 11 centimeters.