What do you mean by "now imagine instead of drawing lines from the short edge's ends to the perimeter, you drew the lines to the centre of the circle, the angle these shorter sides (of length r) create would be 2t. "?
the formula for the area in terms of the sides of a triangle is...
I was doing some optimization questions to get ready for a test. I came across one that stumped me. The question was "Find the dimensions of the isosceles triangle of the largest area that can be inscribed in a circle of radius r".
My approach was:
let y be the base of triangle
let x be...