Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #12468: Triangle inequality theorem - The answer box is wrong / the hints have no answer
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-30 19:19:41+00:00
State: open
Labels: ie8, other, xp

When I press give a hint, it says the following: The triangle inequality theorem states that any side of a triangle is always shorter than the sum of the other two sides.

Therefore the the third side must be less than
By the same theorem, the third side must be also larger than the difference between the other two sides.

Therefore the third side must be larger than

So

[triangle_inequality_theorem.html?seed=0&problem=range](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/triangle_inequality_theorem.html?seed=0&problem=range&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/triangle_inequality_theorem.html?seed=0&problem=range&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C82%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C83%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C83%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C83%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C83%5D%5D)

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