Putnam 1989 B5
- Session B
Label the vertices of a trapezoid (quadrilateral with two parallel sides) inscribed in the unit circle as so that is parallel to and are in counterclockwise order. Let , and denote the lengths of the line segments , and , where E is the point of intersection of the diagonals of , and is the center of the circle. Determine the least upper bound of over all such for which , and describe all cases, if any, in which it is attained.
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