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The Triangle (Posted on 2002-06-03) Difficulty: 2 of 5
An equilateral triangle with one side 6cm is inscribed in a circle with its three vertices on the circumference. What is the diameter of the circle?

See The Solution Submitted by Dulanjana    
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re: Law of signs | Comment 15 of 20 |
(In reply to Law of signs by Chris)

This is also how I did it (Law of sines). :)

Why is there so many solutions with diameters less than 6cm. Thats not possible, since the longest possible chord on a circle is the diameter... Anyway... Nobody's probably even going to read this. This is an old problem, so, forget it...
  Posted by ratsnstuff on 2003-10-13 06:29:54

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