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by shrutib » Wed May 30, 2012 7:18 am
What is the greatest possible triangular region with one vertex at the center of a circle of radius 1 and other two vertices on the circle?

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by aneesh.kg » Wed May 30, 2012 8:09 am
shrutib wrote:What is the greatest possible triangular region with one vertex at the center of a circle of radius 1 and other two vertices on the circle?

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I had to use a little bit of trignometry to prove that the area will be maximum when the angle = 45.

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by GMAT Kolaveri » Wed May 30, 2012 8:59 am
shrutib wrote:What is the greatest possible triangular region with one vertex at the center of a circle of radius 1 and other two vertices on the circle?

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by 1947 » Wed May 30, 2012 9:34 am
Though not a proof ...but I read some where to think of clock while doing this question. When the 2 hands of clock are at 90 degrees then the area formed by these hands will be max...

when we increase/decrease this angle the area decreases.
this is just a concept but it explains this.
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