Question

Find x. Perimeter. What is the value of x? What is the perimeter of this triangle?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

the distance of a vertex on the 2 outgoing sides to the touching points with the inscribed circle is the same for both sides.

and that applies to all 3 vertexes.

so, we know for the top left vertex the distance to both touching points is 4.

that means the distance to the touching points from the bottom left vertex is 7-4 = 3.

and that means that the distance to the touching points from the bottom right vertex is 16-3 = 13.

so, x = 13

it is the distance to one of the touching points for the bottom right vertex.

and the perimeter of the triangle is therefore

7 + 16 + (13 + 4) = 40