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Can the sides of a triangle have lengths 1, 15 and 1

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Answer:

No

Explanation:

In a triangle sum of any two sides is always grater than the third side.

Here,


1 + 1 = 2 \\gtr 15

Hence, 1, 15, 1 can't be the sides of a triangle.

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