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Octagon in a Circle (Posted on 2004-10-25)

The octagon ABCDEFGH is inscribed in a circle, with the vertices around the circumference in the given order. Given that the polygon ACEG is a square of area 5 and the polygon BDFH is a rectangle of area 4, find the maximum possible area of the octagon.

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Subject	Author	Date
answer	K Sengupta	2007-11-24 05:31:03
re(2): solution	Charlie	2004-10-25 20:53:17
re: solution	nikki	2004-10-25 18:18:29
Answer + Solution (pretty sure)	nikki	2004-10-25 18:09:40
Exact solution	Jer	2004-10-25 16:58:53
solution	Charlie	2004-10-25 16:00:08

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