Since the last equation shown above is NOT true, this makes the first equation NOT true.
The equation 14/20 = 16/24 is false so they did NOT make a proportional number of shots
An alternative route is to convert each fraction to decimal form 14/20 = 0.7 16/24 = 0.6666... (the 6's go on forever) We get two different decimal values so this confirms our answer
Therefore, the lengths are the sides of a triangle because the sum of lengths of two sides must be greater than the third side. All the sum of length of 2 sides are greater than the third side.