Shankar Agarwal
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Find the area of the greatest square you can cut out from a triangle ABC whose sides AB= 3cm, BC = 2cm & angle B is 90 degree
The answer is 1.44.
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1 solution
Let the side of the square be x and use similarity between any of the 2 smaller triangles and the larger triangle ABC to find the value of x.