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Well if two triangles have sides of the same length, then by SSS they are congruent. In addition, if they have sides of the same length, their perimeters would be the same. So at first it seems like the answer would be yes. However, if is easy to come up with two triangles with the same perimeter whose sides do not have the same length Triangle 1 has sides 10, 15 and 30 to know if this is a triangle, we need the length of any side to be less the sum of the other two sides. So 10

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