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Nathan cut an isosceles triangle from felt to

make a spirit banner. Two sides of his banne
had the following measures: 15 inches and
7 inches. Which could be the measure of the
third side of Nathan's banner?
A 20 inches
B 15 inches
C 10 inches
7 inches

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A because it can’t be B and it Can’t be C so my answer is A
User Vmeyer
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Answer:

B) 15

Explanation:

only options are 15 or 7 inches because the problem mentioned the triangle is isosceles (they have two equal sides)

we can eliminate 7 because of the triangle inequality theorem

if two sides of a triangle are 7 then their sum is only 14 and it would need to be greater than the third side of 15

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