There can be no such triangle. It can be shown that the minimum altitude from R which a triangle SPR can have with an inscribed circle of radius 3 and SP =7 is when such triangle SPR is isosceles. And that is when the altitude from R isor . So no such triangle can have an altitude from R as short as 15, as your problem states. The isosceles triangle SPR below is drawn to scale, with SP = 7, and the inscribed circle has radius 3. Using similar right triangles OBR and PAR, it's easy to show that AR = . Thus altitude RA cannot possibly be as short as 15, `for this is the minimum case. You should point this out to your instructor. There could have been a typo in one of the numbers. Edwin