A Sliding Equilateral Triangle and a Dot Product
Problem
As shown in the figure, an equilateral triangle has side length . Its vertices and move along the nonnegative -axis and the nonnegative -axis, respectively, with on the opposite side of line from the origin . Let be the midpoint of . Find the maximum value of .
Answer
Solution
| Difficulty | 7/10 |
|---|---|
| Topics | plane geometry, trigonometry, Extrema, Parametrization, Trigonometric Identities, vectors |
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