Saturday, January 20, 2007

"GRE GEOMETRY QUESTION OF THE DAY"

The perimeter of an isosceles triangle ABC is 40 and the lenght of side BC is 12.

COLUMN A:: the lenght of side AB.
COLUMN B:: 14

(A) if quantity in column A is greater.
(B) if quantity in column B is greater.
(C) if the two quantities are equal.
(D) if the relationship cannot be determined from the information given.

10 comments:

Varun Jeeri said...

ans is (d)
given that BC=12...so the other two sides must be of lenghts 16,12 or 14,14

Ain ad hominem Web log said...

no its (c)... its an isosceles triangle.. so both ab and ac equal 14....

Unknown said...

ans D
BC=12 given
so AB can either be 12, 14, or 16

Unknown said...

ans is (c)
the triangle is iso
considering BC as the side being equal to any other side ,its not possible to make a tria
so AB=AC making each equal to 14.

Unknown said...

its D

Pinu13 said...

ans is D

AB can be either 12, 14 or 16

Unknown said...

d

Anonymous said...

the answer is D..

Anonymous said...

Answer is D.

Ashik Ch said...

its isoceles triangle so two sides shold be equal so
when 40-12=28 let the other two sides should be 14 and 14 as they should be equal??or

let two sides be 12 and 12 so remaining side has 40-(12+12)=16 ..so answer is 4..as there is no clarity in the question!!