Kaylee is painting a design on the floor of a recreation room using equilateral triangles. She begins by painting the outline of
Triangle 1 measuring 50 inches on a side. Next, she paints the outline of Triangle 2 inside the first triangle. The side length of Triangle 2 is 80% of the length of Triangle 1. She continues painting triangles inside triangles using the 80% reduction factor. Which triangle will first have a side length of less than 29 inches?
The correct answer for the given problem above would be the fourth triangle. So here is the given solution: Since Triangle 1 is already given with a measurement of 50 inches, and 80% of 50 inches if 40. Triangle 2 then is 40 inches. 80% of 40 is 32, so triangle 3 is 32 inches, and then 80% of 32 is 25.6 inches so triangle 4 is 25.6 inches. Therefore, the triangle that will first have a side length of less than 29 inches is triangle 4.
