2010 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 13
Problem
The lengths of the sides of a triangle in inches are three consecutive integers. The length of the shortest side is of the perimeter. What is the length of the longest side?
Solution 1(algebra solution)
Let , , and be the lengths of the sides of the triangle. Then the perimeter of the triangle is . Using the fact that the length of the smallest side is of the perimeter, it follows that:
. The longest side is then . Thus, answer choice is correct.
Solution 2
Since the length of the shortest side is a whole number and is equal to 3/10 of the perimeter, it follows that the perimeter must be a multiple of 10 Adding the two previous integers to each answer choice, we see that 11+10+9=30 Thus, answer choice E:11 is correct
See Also
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