A triangle has corners at #(4 ,4 )#, #(8 ,2 )#, and #(3 ,1 )#. What is the area of the triangle's circumscribed circle?
1 Answer
Jun 5, 2018
Explanation:
The radius of the circumcircle equals the product of the sides of the triangle divided by four times the area of the triangle.
This is more useful squared:
Archimedes' Theorem says
That all we need to do our problem.
I permuted
Anyway the area of the circumcircle is of course