Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/132 - The Garden Bed

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 * The Garden Bed
 * Here is quite a simple little puzzle.


 * A man has a triangular lawn of the proportions shown,
 * and he wants to make the largest possible rectangular flower-bed without enclosing the tree.


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 * This will serve to teach the uninitiated a simple rule that may prove useful on occasion.
 * For example, it would equally apply to the case of a carpenter who had a triangular board
 * and wished to cut out the largest possible triangular table-top without including a bad knot in the wood.