A complete and practical solution book for the common school teacher (1899)
Fairchild, J[ohn] T[heodore] [from old catalog] · Crawfis College, Ohio, The author · leaf 168
FIG. 25. PROBLEM 328, From a right-angled triangular piece of tin whose sides measurea = 13, b = 12 and c = 5 inches, cut out. first, the greatest possible cir-cle; and after that, the greatest possible rectangle: find the length andbreadth of the rectangle. Solution. … FIG. 26. (1) Let ABC represent the tin triangle, and OD —AD, the radius of the inscribed circle. (2) Join OC, cutting the circumference of the circle in T. (3) From T draw TG parallel to AC, and TP perpendicular to AC. TG and TP will be the length and breadth re-spective!} of the required maximum…
Arithmetic · Geometry
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