Question

A triangle has side lengths of 7 inches, 12 inches, and c inches. Enter values to write an inequality that describes the possible values for c, the length of the third side of the triangle.

Answer 1

Answer:

The inequality is: 5<c<19

Length of third side "c" can have values greater than 5 but less than 19

Solution:

Given that,

Length of two sides of triangle are 7 inches and 12 inches respectively

Let the length of third side be "c"

The Triangle Inequality Theorem, states that, the sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the length of the third side

So we get a inequality as:

Case 1:

Sum of length of two sides of triangle > length of third side

Rewrite,

Case 2:

Let 12 inches be the length of third side

Sum of sides of length 7 and c > 12

Therefore from case 1 and case 2,

Which can be combined,

Therefore the possible values of "c" are:

"c" can have values greater than 5 but less than 19