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A triangle has two sides of length 1 and 16. What is the smallest possible whole-number length for the third side?

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18 is the answer to your question hope it helps
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Answer:

18

Explanation:

From the triangle inequality we know that the sum of any two sides must be larger than the third side. We us the inequality here.

The third side must be greater than 17 and smaller than 19. So the smallest possible (and the only possible) whole-number length for c is 18

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