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Joy has <math>30</math> thin rods, one each of every integer length from <math>1</math> cm through <math>30</math> cm. She places the rods with lengths <math>3</math> cm, <math>7</math> cm, and <math>15</math> 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? | Joy has <math>30</math> thin rods, one each of every integer length from <math>1</math> cm through <math>30</math> cm. She places the rods with lengths <math>3</math> cm, <math>7</math> cm, and <math>15</math> 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? | ||
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==Solution== | ==Solution== | ||
Revision as of 19:26, 8 February 2017
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, which gives 
See Also
| 2017 AMC 10A (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
| Preceded by Problem 9 |
Followed by Problem 11 | |
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| All AMC 10 Problems and Solutions | ||
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