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The sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the length of the third side. What can you conclude about AC in ABC?

BC + AC = 22; AB + BC = 12

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Answer:

ab<6 units

Explanation:

One of the basic property of any triangle is that the sum of the length of any two sides of a triangle is always greater than the length of the third side. Here we are given a triangle abc, in whicn bc=4ac= 8-abIf have to make some conclusion about ab.As per the property discussed above ab<ac+bcab<8-ab+42ab<12ab<6Hence the length of ab must be less than 6 units

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