An isosceles triangle has two sides of length $7$ and an area of $14.$ What is the product of all possible values of its perimeter?
Let the base of the triangle be $b$ and the height be $h.$ Since the area of the triangle is 14, we have
bh2=14⇒bh=28.
By the Pythagorean Theorem, we have
b2=72−(b2)2=49−b24.
Multiplying both sides by 4, we get
4b2=196−b2⇒5b2=196⇒b=4√55.
The perimeter of the triangle is $2b+7 = 2\left(\frac{4\sqrt{5}}{5}\right) + 7 = \frac{8\sqrt{5}}{5} + 7.$ The product of all possible values of the perimeter is
(8√55+7)(−8√55+7)=49−32025=82525=33.