Question

A kite has a perimeter of 70 centimeters. One of the shorter sides measures 16 centimeters. What are the lengths of the other three sides?

Answer 1

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

the corect answer would be 16cm 19cm 19cm

Answer 2

A kite has 2 short sides and 2 long sides. The 2 short sides are equal. The 2 long sides are also equal. This means that the other short side is 16cm. And the remaining longer sides can be found like this:
let's pretend *y* is the long side
2*y = 70 - 16 - 16. (two of the long sides = 70 - short side - another short side)
so use algebra to find y.
2*y = 38
y = 19 so the long sides are both 19cm each
Your final answer: 16cm, 19cm, 19cm