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Question P.414: Another solution to Exercise 329: to draw through a given po......

Another solution to Exercise 329: to draw through a given point inside an angle a secant which forms, with the sides of the angle, a triangle with given area. Construct first the parallelogram with a vertex at the given point, and two sides on the sides of the angle. This parallelogram cuts from the required triangle two partial triangles whose sum is known. Reduce then to the question in Exercise 216.

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