At a party with “m” people, a lady dances
with p gentlemen, the second with p + 1,
the third one with p + 2, and so on until the
last one dances with all the gentlemen,
find the number of ladies who attended the
party in terms of “m”and “p”.
Find the largest possible area
of trapezoid that can be drawn
under the x−axis so that one
of its bases is on the x−axis
and the other two vertices are
on the curve y=x^2 −9