What is the minimum area of a triangle formed by the x-axis and the y-axis and a line through the point (2,1)?
1 Answer
Feb 10, 2018
Explanation:
For a line through
The area of the triangle is
To get one variable, we need to find
We know that the
or use the the fact that the equation
So the line has equation:
The
So,
Area
From here, find and test the critical numbers to see that
And calculate that, when