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Extreme Ellipse Exercise (Posted on 2014-12-13)

Consider a convex pentagon ABCDE, with AB=1, BC=2, CD=3, DE=4, EA=5, ∠AED=36^o and ∠BAE=150^o.

(A) What is the area of the smallest ellipse that can be circumscribed around pentagon ABCDE?

(B) What is the area of the largest ellipse that can be inscribed in pentagon ABCDE?

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta

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	Subject	Author	Date
	Circumellipse (Part A)	Brian Smith	2016-12-04 23:42:52

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