The area of is and the product of the length of its sides is . If the radius of the incircle of this triangle is 1, then find the value of
Give your answer to 3 decimal places.
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For any triangle
Radius of incircle ( r ) = s Δ
where s is the semi-perimeter of Δ A B C , i.e., s = 2 a + b + c .
So
⟹ s 6 = 1 s = 6
Using heron's formula
⟹ ⟹ ⟹ ⟹ ⟹ Δ = s ( s − a ) ( s − b ) ( s − c ) 6 = 6 ( 6 − a ) ( 6 − b ) ( 6 − c ) 3 6 = 6 ( 6 − a ) ( 6 − b ) ( 6 − c ) 6 = 2 1 6 − 3 6 ( a + b + c ) + 6 ( a b + b c + c a ) − a b c 6 = 2 1 6 − 3 6 ( 1 2 ) + 6 ( a b + b c + c a ) − 6 0 ∵ a + b + c = 2 s = 1 2 a b + b c + c a = 4 7
Now
a 1 + b 1 + c 1 = a b c a b + b c + c a = 6 0 4 7 ≈ 0 . 7 8 3
Extra bit:
An interesting thing to note here is that the only unordered triplet for positive integral values of a , b and c is ( a , b , c ) = ( 3 , 4 , 5 ) which is a very popular Pythagorean triplet! (Thus, the title is justified.)