Provide an appropriate response.Jason is given the following information: "The shortest side of a triangle is 4 cm less than the middle side. The length of the longest side is 13 cm." Jason claims that he can find the lengths of the two shorter sides by solving the following equation: x2 + (x + 4)2 = 132What is wrong with his reasoning?
What will be an ideal response?
Jason obtained this equation by using the Pythagorean Theorem. However, we are not told that the triangle is a right triangle so it is not appropriate to use the Pythagorean Theorem.
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