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A triangle has two sides of length 25 and 25. What is the smallest possible whole-number length for the third side?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
By the triangle inequality, 25 + 25 > x so x < 50, and 25 + x > 25 so x > 0. Thus the third side can be any positive whole number less than 50. The smallest whole-number length is 1.