Does anybody know about finding the area of a trapezoid within a unit circle?

Question

And then writing the area of the trapezoid as a function of theta?

Answer 1

You may want to be more specific on this one... are you trying to find the largest possible area? You can inscribe lots of different trapezoids in a circle.

And which theta are we talking about? The angle that the base makes with the circle?

Try that one again,

UMRmathmajor

Answer 2

Unfortunately, not all trapezoids can be inscribed within a circle. Consider a trapezoid (A, B, C, D) that has angle
How did you come up with this problem statement?