Asked by Elijah

A triangle has two sides of length 5 and 26. What is the largest possible whole-number length for the third side?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
By the triangle inequality, the third side x must satisfy
x + 5 > 26 → x > 21
and 5 + 26 > x → x < 31.
So x is an integer with 21 < x < 31, and the largest possible whole-number length is 30.