The base of an isosceles triangle is one and a half times the length of the other two sides. A smaller triangle has a perimeter that is half the perimeter of the first. Write an expression for the perimeter of the smaller triangle and combine like terms. What is the simplified expression?

Carbon is allowed to diffuse through a steel plate 15 mm thick. the concentrations of carbon at the two faces are 0.65 and 0.30 kg c/m^3 fe, which are maintained constant. if the preexponential and activation energy are 6.2 x 10-7 m2 /s and 80,000 j/mol, respectively, compute the temperature at which the diffusion flux is 1.43 x 10^-9 kg/m^2 -s.