Question

The ratios of the measure of the sides of a triangle is 4:10:7. Find the length of each side of the perimeter of the triangle is 252 meters

Answer 1

first side: 48, second: 120, third: 84.

Answer 2

The given ratio of the sides of the triangles is 4:10:7. Let the sides be 4x, 10x and 7x .

And given perimeter is 252 meters .

Perimeter is the sum of all sides. So we get

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Dividing both sides by 21

`x = 12`

So the sides are

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