Asked by Elijah

A triangle has two sides of length 3 and 29. What is the smallest possible whole-number length for the third side?

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
By the triangle inequality, the third side c must satisfy 29 - 3 < c < 29 + 3, i.e. 26 < c < 32. The smallest whole number in that range is 27.