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Problem 9
Triangle has
and
. This triangle is inscribed in rectangle
with
on
and
on
. Find the maximum possible area of
.
Solution 1
Note that if angle is obtuse, it would be impossible for the triangle to inscribed in a rectangle. This can easily be shown by drawing triangle ABC, where
is obtuse. Therefore, angle A is acute. Let angle
and angle
. Then,
and
. Then the area of rectangle
is
. By product-to-sum,
.
. The maximum possible value of
is 1, which occurs when
. Thus the maximum possible value of
is
so the maximum possible area of
is
.
Solution 2
We start by drawing a diagram;
We know that . Since
,
Using our angle sum identities, we expand this to .
We can now use the right triangle definition of cosine and sine to rewrite this equation as;
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Solution 3
As above, we note that angle must be acute. Therefore, let
be the origin, and suppose that
is on the positive
axis and
is on the positive
axis. We approach this using complex numbers. Let
, and let
be a complex number with
,
and
. Then we represent
by
and
by
. The coordinates of
and
depend on the real part of
and the imaginary part of
. Thus
We can expand this, using the fact that
, finding
Now as
, we know that
. Also,
, so the maximum possible imaginary part of
is
. This is clearly achievable under our conditions on
. Therefore, the maximum possible area of
is
.
Solution 4 (With Calculus)
Let be the angle
. The height of the rectangle then can be expressed as
, and the length of the rectangle can be expressed as
. The area of the rectangle can then be written as a function of
,
. For now, we will ignore the
and focus on the function
.
Taking the derivative, . Setting this equal to
, we get
. Since we know that
, the
solution is extraneous. Thus, we get that
.
Plugging this value into the original area equation, . Using a product-to-sum formula, we get that:
.
Solution 5
Let be the angle
and
be the angle
. Then
However, by AM-GM:
Therefore,
So,
.
However, the area of the rectangle is just
.
Note on Problem Validity
It has been noted that this answer won't actually work. Let angle and angle
as in Solution 1. Since we know (through that solution) that
, we can call them each
. The height of the rectangle is
, and the distance
. We know that, if the triangle is to be inscribed in a rectangle,
.
However, , so the triangle does not actually fit in the rectangle: specifically, B is above R and thus in the line containing segment QR but not on the actual segment or in the rectangle.
The actual answer is a radical near (letting the triangle be inside the rectangle). The CAMC, however, has decided to accept only the answer
despite the invalid problem statement.
See Also
2016 AIME I (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
Preceded by Problem 8 |
Followed by Problem 10 | |
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