The question is the following:
What is the radius of the circumscribed circle for a triangle whose sides are 15, 15, and 24 cm long? What is the radius of the smallest circle that contains this triangle?
I found the height of the triangle to be 9 inches, but I am not sure how to go farther from there. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Best Answer
HINT:
Since the triangle is obtuse, the radius of the smalles circle is $\frac{1}{2} 24 = 12$