The lengths of the sides of a triangle are consecutive integers and its inradius is . Find the lengths of the sides and the circumradius.
Solution
Let , , be the sides such that and . Recall Heron's Formula and two other well known formulae for the area of a triangle:
where is the inradius and the circumradius.
We obtain and so . Therefore, , i.e. and so . This gives and so , and . Finally, and so
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