An Inscribed Equilateral Minimum

Problem

In a right triangle ABCABC with ACB=90\angle ACB=90^\circ, BC=aBC=a, and AC=bAC=b, points D,E,FD,E,F lie on the sides BCBC, CACA, ABAB respectively so that DEF\triangle DEF is equilateral. Find the minimum area of DEF\triangle DEF.

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Solution

Difficulty8/10
Topicsplane geometry, Law of Sines, trigonometry, Extrema, Cauchy-Schwarz

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