2017 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 10
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Problem
Joy has thin rods, one each of every integer length from
cm through
cm. She places the rods with lengths
cm,
cm, and
cm on a table. She then wants to choose a fourth rod that she can put with these three to form a quadrilateral with positive area. How many of the remaining rods can she choose as the fourth rod?
Solution
The triangle inequality generalizes to all polygons, so and
to get
. Now, we know that there are
numbers between
and
exclusive, but we must subtract
to account for the 2 lengths already used that are between those numbers, which gives
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