Max Inscribed Equilateral Triangle
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December 20, 2005
geometryrectanglealgebrapolynomialAMCAIMEtrigonometry
Problem Statement
The sides of rectangle have lengths 10 and 11. An equilateral triangle is drawn so that no point of the triangle lies outside The maximum possible area of such a triangle can be written in the form where and are positive integers, and is not divisible by the square of any prime number. Find