Find the maximum-area of an isosceles triangle inscribed in the

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351.

Find the largest possible area of a right-angled triangle whose hypotenuse is 5 cm long.

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352. A point on the hypotenuse of a triangle is at distance a and b from the sides of the triangle. Show that the maximum length of the hypotenuse is open parentheses straight a to the power of 2 over 3 end exponent plus straight b to the power of 2 over 3 end exponent close parentheses to the power of 3 over 2 end exponent. 
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353. Find the maximum-area of an isosceles triangle inscribed in the ellipse straight x squared over straight a squared plus straight y squared over straight b squared space equals space 1 with its vertex at one end of the major axis.


Let APQ be the isosceles triangle inscribed in the ellipse with centre at C. A is (a, 0).
Let P and Q be (a cos ө , b sin ө) and (a cos ө, – b sin ө) respectively.
Let ∆ be area of ∆ APQ

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Let AP and BQ be two vertical poles at points A and B, respectively. If AP = 16 m. BQ = 22 m and AB = 20 m, then find the distance of a point R on AB from the point A such that RP2 + RQ2 is minimum.

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355.

If length of three sides of a trapezium other than base are equal to 10 cm. then find the area of the trapezium when it is maximum.

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356.

Use differentials to approximate square root of 25.3 end root.

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Use differentials to approximate square root of 0.037 end root.

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Use differentials to approximate square root of 36.6 end root

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359.

Use differentials to approximate:
square root of 49.5 end root


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360.

Use differentials to approximate:
square root of 0.6 end root



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