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Two sides of a triangle have lengths of 20 inches and 34 inches. Which could be the length of the third side?

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Bogdan [553]3 years ago

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The sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle must be greater than to the length of the third side.

4 + 20 = 24 < 34 NOT

20 + 34 = 54 < 60 NOT

14 + 20 = 34 NOT

20 + 27 =47 > 34

20 + 34 = 54 > 27

27 + 30 = 57 > 20

CORRECT

Answer: D. 27 inches

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Find the sum of the positive integers less than 200 which are not multiples of 4 and 7

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Answer:

$12942$ is the sum of positive integers between $1$ (inclusive) and $199$ (inclusive) that are not multiples of $4$ and not multiples $7$ .

Step-by-step explanation:

For an arithmetic series with:

$a_1$ as the first term,
$a_n$ as the last term, and
$d$ as the common difference,

there would be $\displaystyle \left(\frac{a_n - a_1}{d} + 1\right)$ terms, where as the sum would be $\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}\, \displaystyle \underbrace{\left(\frac{a_n - a_1}{d} + 1\right)}_\text{number of terms}\, (a_1 + a_n)$ .

Positive integers between $1$ (inclusive) and $199$ (inclusive) include:

$1,\, 2,\, \dots,\, 199$ .

The common difference of this arithmetic series is $1$ . There would be $(199 - 1) + 1 = 199$ terms. The sum of these integers would thus be:

$\begin{aligned}\frac{1}{2}\times ((199 - 1) + 1) \times (1 + 199) = 19900 \end{aligned}$ .

Similarly, positive integers between $1$ (inclusive) and $199$ (inclusive) that are multiples of $4$ include:

$4,\, 8,\, \dots,\, 196$ .

The common difference of this arithmetic series is $4$ . There would be $(196 - 4) / 4 + 1 = 49$ terms. The sum of these integers would thus be:

$\begin{aligned}\frac{1}{2}\times 49 \times (4 + 196) = 4900 \end{aligned}$

Positive integers between $1$ (inclusive) and $199$ (inclusive) that are multiples of $7$ include:

$7,\, 14,\, \dots,\, 196$ .

The common difference of this arithmetic series is $7$ . There would be $(196 - 7) / 7 + 1 = 28$ terms. The sum of these integers would thus be:

$\begin{aligned}\frac{1}{2}\times 28 \times (7 + 196) = 2842 \end{aligned}$

Positive integers between $1$ (inclusive) and $199$ (inclusive) that are multiples of $28$ (integers that are both multiples of $4$ and multiples of $7$ ) include:

$28,\, 56,\, \dots,\, 196$ .

The common difference of this arithmetic series is $28$ . There would be $(196 - 28) / 28 + 1 = 7$ terms. The sum of these integers would thus be:

$\begin{aligned}\frac{1}{2}\times 7 \times (28 + 196) = 784 \end{aligned}$ .

The requested sum will be equal to:

the sum of all integers from $1$ to $199$ ,
minus the sum of all integer multiples of $4$ between $1\!$ and $199\!$ , and the sum integer multiples of $7$ between $1$ and $199$ ,
plus the sum of all integer multiples of $28$ between $1$ and $199$ - these numbers were subtracted twice in the previous step and should be added back to the sum once.