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Latest revision as of 10:00, 19 August 2025
Problem
Joy has 
thin rods, one each of every integer length from 
cm through cm. She places the rods with lengths 
cm, 
cm, and 
cm on a table. She then wants to choose a fourth rod that she can put with these three to form a quadrilateral with positive area. How many of the remaining rods can she choose as the fourth rod?
Solution 1
The triangle inequality generalizes to all polygons, so 
and 
yields 
. Now, we know that there are 
numbers between 
and 
exclusive, but we must subtract 
to account for the 2 lengths already used that are between those numbers, which gives 
Video Solution
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See Also
| 2017 AMC 10A (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
| Preceded by Problem 9 |
Followed by Problem 11 | |
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| All AMC 10 Problems and Solutions | ||
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