Putnam 1985 A2
- Session A
Let be an acute triangle. Inscribe a rectangle in with one side along a side of . Then inscribe a rectangle in the triangle formed by the side of opposite the side on the boundary of , and the other two sides of , with one side along the side of . For any polygon , let denote the area of . Find the maximum value, or show that no maximum exists, of , where ranges over all triangles and over all rectangles as above.
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