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help with proof by exhaustion???

i am working on these proof by exhaustion questions and i don't understand since they seem so vague.

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Original post by tom_arbon
i am working on these proof by exhaustion questions and i don't understand since they seem so vague.


Can you give an example of a question you're confused by? It's much easier to help that way.

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Original post by sindyscape62
Can you give an example of a question you're confused by? It's much easier to help that way.


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Original post by tom_arbon
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For the first one you're trying to work out how many triangles have perimeter 11 and all integer sides. There aren't many ways to make 11 out of three integers - if you make a list of all of them and exclude the ones that you can't make a triangle out of you'll know how many triangles there are.

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