Changing Area

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In △ A B C \triangle ABC , A B = 4 AB=4 , B C = 10 BC=10 , and A C = 12 AC=12 . If A B AB is doubled and B C BC is decreased by 6, ceteris paribus, what is the area of the new triangle?


The answer is 0.

Andres Gonzalez by Andres Gonzalez , 32, USA

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2 solutions

Chew-Seong Cheong
Jul 20, 2016

The triangle with sum of two side lengths equals to the third is a straight line with 0 \boxed {0} area.

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Its impossible to make a triangle given these values. It is just a line.

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