At first, students might think that the lengths of the sides of a triangle can be any three lengths, but that is not so. The Triangle Inequality says that the length of any side must be less than the sum of the lengths of the other two sides. For the triangle in part (a) to exist, all of these

statements must be true:

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5<3+4, 3<4+5, and 4<5+3.