A Sliding Equilateral Triangle and a Dot Product

Problem

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As shown in the figure, an equilateral triangle ABCABC has side length 22. Its vertices BB and CC move along the nonnegative xx-axis and the nonnegative yy-axis, respectively, with AA on the opposite side of line BCBC from the origin OO. Let MM be the midpoint of ABAB. Find the maximum value of OA→⋅OM→\overrightarrow{OA}\cdot \overrightarrow{OM}.

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Solution

Difficulty7/10
Topicsplane geometry, trigonometry, Extrema, Parametrization, Trigonometric Identities, vectors

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