Question

help!

Answer 1

@AP @RichardWatterson7

Answer 2

The first one I believe

Answer 3

It's not the first one.

Answer 4

@Cupcake123456 Do you know what an equilateral triangle is?

Answer 5

yeah

Answer 6

How many sides does it have?

Answer 7

3

Answer 8

and they are all equal to each other

Answer 9

Do you know what the perimeter is?

Answer 10

yeah they equal 60

Answer 11

@Cupcake123456 How do you get the perimeter of any shape?

Answer 12

add up each side ?

Answer 13

or do i multiply ?

Answer 14

Correct. So if you need to add up all the sides, which is three of them, and they are equal, and the total perimeter is (15x + 30)...how could we get the value of each side...

Answer 15

i dont understand what u just said ?^

Answer 16

If it helps, think of an equilateral triangle with a perimeter of 3.

Answer 17

What is the value of each side

Answer 18

60?

Answer 19

no, I think you are thinking about angles.

Answer 20

The measure of each angle in an equilateral triangle is 60. But, we want the sides.

So if I add up all the sides, which are three, and each side is equal in length, and I get a value of 3, what must be the value of each side?

Answer 21

180 degrees ?

Answer 22

That is the angle

Answer 23

i DONT UNDERSTAND THIS AT ALL !

Answer 24

The value of the angles, are 60. The value of the sides, is 1

Answer 25

ill just come back to that question later its aggravating me !

Answer 26

Do you know the difference between an angle and a side?

Answer 27

unless u still wanna help

Answer 28

yeah i was just confused

Answer 29

Yeah so, perimeter is adding up the sides, not the angles

Answer 30

Look at my example. It's an equilateral triangle so all the sides are equal in length. A triangle has three sides, so we have three sides that all have the same length. So if the total perimeter is three, I can divided by 3 (the total number of sides) to get the value of each side.

Answer 31

Which is 1..

Answer 32

OK>>

Answer 33

So try and see how I solved my example, then look at how you'd solve your problem. Trust me, it is very simple. If you are confused, just let me know. I am here to help.

Answer 34

would it be C ?

Answer 35

How'd you get that?

Answer 36

i guessed

Answer 37

or b ?

Answer 38

okk...

Answer 39

\[P = (15x + 30) \rightarrow \frac{ 15x + 30 }{ 3 } \rightarrow S = 5x + 10\]

Perimeter is 15x + 30
Divide it by 3, you get the value of each side

Answer 40

so c ?