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A landscape architecture submitted a design for a triangle- shaped flower garden with the side lengths of 21 ft, 37 ft, and 15 ft to a customer. Explain why the architect was not hired to create the lower garden

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User Joselo
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Those lengths will NOT form a triangle.
According to the triangle inequality theorem, the longest side has to be LESS than the sum of the other 2 sides.


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