Homework Help: calculus

Posted by Tina on Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 8:05pm.

A rectangle is inscribed in an isosceles triangle. If the sides of the triangle are 10, 10 and 12, what are the dimensions of the rectangle having the greatest area? The diagram shows the triangle on a set of axes with base 12 on the x axis and the top vertices on the y axis.

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