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Incenter and a half (Posted on 2018-02-03)

Take an isosceles triangle and its inradius r₁. Split the triangle by its altitude. The radius of one of these smaller triangles is r₂.

If r₁/r₂=3/2 what is the ratio of base to height in the original triangle?

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The required base-to- height ratio in the original triangle is 1.5

Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-04-06 22:12:14

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