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No. All equilateral and equiangular triangles are acute. (All angles are equal to 60°, which is less than a right angle [90°]); however, the converse (which is what was asked) is not true.

A triangle can have all three angles be less than 90°, but not be an equilateral triangle.

An example is a triangle with angles of 80°, 60°, and 40°. It is scalene and acute.

From the Law of Sines: a/sin(A) = b/sin(B) = c/sin(C), you can show that sin(80°) does not equal sin(60°) or sin(40°), so none of sides a, b, and c, are equal.

You could have an acute isosceles triangle like: 80°, 80° and 20° angles, as another example. From the Law of Sines, you can show that two of the sides are equal, but the third side (opposite the 20° angle) is not equal to either of the other 2.

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