Homework Help: geometry

Posted by dee on Monday, October 17, 2011 at 7:12pm.

If the base of an isosceles triangle has a length of 10, what is the shortest possible integral value for the length of each of the congruent sides?

geometry - Steve, Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 12:19am
You know that the length of any side of a triangle must be less than the sum of the lengths of the other two sides.

So, the other two sides must be at least 11. That means each of the two congruent sides must be at least 6.

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