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waterloo699

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A rectangle is inscribed in a circle radius of 5m. Determine the maximum possible area for such a rectangle.
 
Well, it is intuitively obvious that it is a square. To prove that:
It is W wide by H high.
W²+H²=10²
The area is
A = WH = W*sqrt(100-W²)
Set the derivitive dA/dW = 0 and solve for W
 
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