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by colakumarfanta » Thu May 20, 2010 10:01 pm

A circle is inside a rectangle . Dimensions of rectangle are 8 and 10 . So the largest area of square is ?

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by liferocks » Thu May 20, 2010 10:09 pm

colakumarfanta wrote:A circle is inside a rectangle . Dimensions of rectangle are 8 and 10 . So the largest area of square is ?

From where the square came into picture?

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by liferocks » Thu May 20, 2010 10:10 pm

If I assume that question is 'A circle is inside a rectangle . Dimensions of rectangle are 8 and 10 . So the largest area of circle is ?'

then the largest circle will have diameter equal to the smaller side of the rectangle in this case which is 8
hence area pi*4^2 or 16*pi

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