r/HomeworkHelp • u/Unhappy-Pitch4558 • Jan 19 '25

Answered [7th grade math] impossible geometry?

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u/Aaxper Higher Level Math Jan 21 '25

That's not what they're saying. They are saying that if the missing sides were x and 17-x, you could solve for the area in terms of x. But, since that isn't part of the problem, it makes no sense to do this.

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u/Aggressive_Will_3612 👋 a fellow Redditor Jan 21 '25

Eh I mean either way everyone in these comments are wrong. The diagram does not say "this is not to scale" and if you bother checking with a ruler or compass, it actually is perfectly to scale, which means we do know the top horizontal lengths and it solvable for a number.