Forming Triangle

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Thamim Zahin
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Forming Triangle

Unread post by Thamim Zahin » Sun Dec 11, 2016 7:52 pm

Each of ten segments are longer than $1$ cm but shorter than $55$ cm. Prove that it is possible to construct a triangle by taking three segments from the ten.
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Re: Forming Triangle

Unread post by Raiyan Jamil » Mon Dec 12, 2016 12:25 am

fibonacci does the trick
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