Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
- During a mathematics activity, teacher Julieta distributed to each of her students 4 straws measuring 2 cm, 3 cm, 7 cm and 8 cm. In this activity, Julieta's students had to build triangles with these straws, without cutting them.
- How many different triangles could each of Julieta's students form with these straws?
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- Triangle inequality theorem says that no any side of a triangle can be longer or equal to the sum the other two sides
Given measures:
We see that:
Therefore we can't make triangles with the sides of 2 cm, 3 cm and 7 cm or 8 cm
Possible solutions are:
- 2 cm, 7 cm, 8 cm
- 3 cm, 7 cm, 8 cm
So we can make two different triangles