EHM I need to find the formula for the Area of the rectangle

[little oracle]

You get to see my own drawing :) lmk if the drawing left some out basically this for optimizaiton problem i get the rest of it just makin this formula is leaving me stuck

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[heady garden]

is that an isoceles or random 12 high triangle

[little oracle]

Well, the problem specified only that the altitude was 12

So I didn't make it iscocles to make sure that is shown

[short edge]

what even are u trying to find uh

[little oracle]

well, A= (where a is the area of the rectangle)

So it would be A=x*y but u substitute in for x and y

[short edge]

is it given that the rectangle meets these high sides at the midpoint of that triangle?

[little oracle]

nope

My drawing was like that to make it easier to have a big rectangle to draw in

[short edge]

bruh what 💀 basically nothing is given hmmm

[little oracle]

well it does specify useless things like assume the base of rectangle is on base of triangle etc etc

Should I skip this one but it def should be possible

[heady garden]

the issue is

well

if your triangle was like

[short edge]

they have the same base?

[heady garden]

wayyy stretched off to the side

[little oracle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRmS8VAYMnM

[heady garden]

your biggest triangle is nothing

but maybe

they want you to pick the best triangle then

[little oracle]

no, but the base align on top of each other. We can basically assume the rectangle's base is shorter than that of the triangle tho

[short edge]

oh

[little oracle]

the video i found applies for that problem with right triangle do you know if that would work in my problemt oo

[short edge]

lets see

[little oracle]

OOOO HELL NAH

I remember something

LAW OF COSINES ISNT IT

[short edge]

what r u gonna do with third sidee of the triangle

[little oracle]

IDK

hell nah

I should skip its almost 12am

alr alr

[heady garden]

well you can start making euqations

use coordinates because they are cool

then assume the bottom left is the origin

and then the top is something and just start bashing out variables and see if you can make an argument for x and y being specific lengths

[livid wolf]

If you want the dimensions of the largest rectangle that can be drawn inside the triangle, this is the solution

[little oracle]

wow nice

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