What is the maximum area that could be enclosed by a piece of string 132 cm long? What shape would that area take?

What is the minimum area that could be enclosed by the same string? What shape will it take?

(In reply to Solution by Half-Mad)

Somehow I have a strange inkling that a rigorous proof that a circle has the biggest area with a given perimeter would involve calculus.

Posted by levik on 2002-06-04 05:32:07