5. Two sides of a triangle are 8 and 15, What is the range of the 3rd side? Write your answer as an inequality

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5. Two sides of a triangle are 8 and 15,
What is the range of the 3rd side? Write
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Two sides of triangle are 8 and 15.

Let the third side be x

In case of triangle sum of length of two sides of triangle must be greater than third side , therefore

8+15>x23>xx<23      .......1 

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