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by pepeprepa » Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:50 am
I think we can deduce the biggest triangular area in a circle with one vertex at the center of the circle and the other vertex on the circle, is a right triangle ...

Seriously, I find this question difficult and I do not see which rule you have to use...

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by sudhir3127 » Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:56 am
As pepeprepa said it shud be right angle triangle.

i think it shud be 1/2*1*1 = 1/2 ( radius 1 , other side 1 and hypoteneuse sq rt 2 )

hope it helps

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by Ian Stewart » Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:33 am
pepeprepa wrote:I think we can deduce the biggest triangular area in a circle with one vertex at the center of the circle and the other vertex on the circle, is a right triangle ...

Seriously, I find this question difficult and I do not see which rule you have to use...
I posted a solution here:

www.beatthegmat.com/largest-area-of-of- ... 12221.html

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by pepeprepa » Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:42 am
With this viewpoint it is an easy problem! Thanks for the link...