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State if these 3 numbers can be the measures of the sides of a triangle.

21, 6 , 12

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User Sanz
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No since 21 as the hypotenuse will be taken and is tooooooo long... then 12cm as base and 6 as the opposite side to hypotenuse would be short in length
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No,because it does not go with pythagoras thorem

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