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Largest circle in quadrilateral (Posted on 2021-09-17)

Given a quadrilateral with side lengths 2, 4, 5, and 6 units, what is the radius of the largest circle which can be drawn completely inside of it?

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does the order of sides matter?

| Comment 4 of 8 |

If we permute the sides, we could have one of three different shapes:

2 4 5 6 (original)

4 2 5 6 (Brian's)

4 5 2 6 (a third)

Does it matter which we choose? Are there now 3 problems?

Posted by Steven Lord on 2021-09-19 15:12:14

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