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JEE Advanced2023Paper 2MATH-IV
Q.

PARAGRAPH “I”

Consider an obtuse angled triangle in which the difference between the largest and the smallest angle is and whose sides are in arithmetic progression. Suppose that the vertices of this triangle lie on a circle of radius .


Q1. Let be the area of the triangle . Then the value of is

Solution

Let the angles be with , and write , so and (using ).

The sides opposite are in AP, say (opposite to ). With circumradius , the law of sines gives:

Adding the first two: , so . Using ,

Then (positive since is small). The area is

Therefore

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