A rectangle is inscribed in a isosceles triangle with base 1 unit and height h units.what should be the height of the triangle,so that it has minimum area?

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sudhir pal · Answer

probably you got a wrong statement as in any case of isosceles triangle you can choose the dimension of rectangle so that it has minimum area even tending 0 so you must ask for max area

solving question for max area.

attaching pic of the solution

so max area is = h/4

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Sudhir,

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A rectangle is inscribed in a isosceles triangle with base 1 unit and height h units.what should be the height of the triangle,so that it has minimum area?

A rectangle is inscribed in a isosceles triangle with base 1 unit and height h units.what should be the height of the triangle,so that it has minimum area?

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