Samyak Jain
Last Activity: 5 Years ago
Due to some error, some characters are missing in above answer. So I’m reposting the answer.
The sides of a triangle are in GP. Let the lengths of the sides be
a/r , a , ar. r is the common ratio of the GP.
Clearly, a > 0 and r > 0 as they represent length.
Let

denote the smallest angle of the triangle. Then largest angle is 2

.
Case 1. r > 1

a/r and ar are the smallest and largest sides respectively.
We know that side opposite to larger angle of a triangle is greater and vice versa.
So, angle opposite to a/r is

and that opposite to ar is 2

.
By sine rule, (a/r) / sin

= ar / sin2

. Cancel a on both sides and replace sin2

by 2sin

cos

.
r2 = 2 cos
(Observe that r
2 = 2 cos

is positive i.e.

is acute.)
Maximum value of cos

is 1, so maximum value of r
2 is 2 i.e. maximum value of r is

.
1
...(1)
We know that sum of all angles of a triangle is 180

. Thus, sum of two angles should be less than 180

.
Case 2. 0

a/r and ar are the largest and smallest sides respectively and angles opposite to them are 2

and

.
By sine rule, (a/r) / sin2

= ar / sin

.
Above equation simplifies to r
2 = 1 / 2cos

.

we have found that

lies between 0

and 60

, cos

lies between 1/2 and 1.
So, r
2 lies between 1/2 and 1 i.e. r lies in the interval
(1/
, 1).
b is correct option.