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The ratio of the sides of a triangle is 8:13:11. If the perimeter of a triangle is equal to 256, what is the length of the longest side?

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There asking what the numbers are by The ratios, what I did was did was multiply by 8 for each number 8•8=64 13•8=104 11•8=88 so now what you do is add up 64+104+88=256 those are your answers if you want to double check you will dived them by 8 so 64/8=8 104/8=13 88/8=11
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