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The sides of a triangle are 12, 15, and 20. If the shortest side of a similar triangle is 3. find the length of the longest side of the triangle.

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Solution

For this case we can do the follwong:

For this case we can do the following proportion rule:


(3)/(12)=(b)/(20)

Where b is the longest side and solving we got:


b=20\cdot(3)/(12)=5

The final answer is 5

The sides of a triangle are 12, 15, and 20. If the shortest side of a similar triangle-example-1
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