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Given information

The isosceles triangle of largest area that can be inscribed in a circle of radius .

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
As per the given question, 
 
Draw the diagram the isosceles triangle that can be inscribed in a circle of radius .

The area of the triangle is given by  . We can write  in terms of  and 

    

  

Now, the area can be written as

  

Geometrically,  is defined only when  is in  . At the end point  the triangle degenerates into a line.

Differentiating we get

  

   

 

Setting   to zero gives

 

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