SOLUTION: vertical plane intersects a right circular cone, whose slant height is 10 cm and diameter is 12 cm.What is area of the largest isosceles triangle formed?
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Question 407382: vertical plane intersects a right circular cone, whose slant height is 10 cm and diameter is 12 cm.What is area of the largest isosceles triangle formed?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hint: the largest area occurs when the vertical plane passes through the cone's vertex.
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