The Square Under the Hypotenuse
Can you work out the side length of a square that just touches the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle?
Can you work out the side length of a square that just touches the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle?
Show that for any triangle it is always possible to construct 3 touching circles with centres at the vertices. Is it possible to construct touching circles centred at the vertices of any polygon?
Three points A, B and C lie in this order on a line, and P is any point in the plane. Use the Cosine Rule to prove the following statement.
Take any pair of two digit numbers x=ab and y=cd where, without loss of generality, ab > cd . Form two 4 digit numbers r=abcd and s=cdab and calculate: {r^2 - s^2} /{x^2 - y^2}.
A 2-digit number is squared. When this 2-digit number is reversed and squared, the difference between the squares is also a square. What is the 2-digit number?
Which has the greatest area, a circle or a square, inscribed in an isosceles right angle triangle?