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Determining Whether a Triangle is Unique
Ted has the following triangle dimensions.

side length of 8

side length of 14

side length of 23

How many triangles can he construct?
He can construct only one triangle.
He can construct two triangles.
He can construct three triangles.
He cannot construct a triangle.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
He cannot construct a triangle.

Reason: triangle inequality requires the sum of any two side lengths to be greater than the third. Here 8 + 14 = 22 which is less than 23, so no triangle is possible.