I have just attached another figure.Needless to say, mavropnevma's solution is perfect.
P.S.I remember that the similar problem original problem has been posed in 1970's in Tokyo University entrance exam/Science.
According to my memory, let
region
be the maximum area of any triangle which is involved in the
to find the extrema of
. in original problem, then draw the graph of
Here is the similar problem posed in Tokyo University entrance exam/Science, second round, 1978
In the
-plane, let
be the part which is correspond to
. of the parabola ,
that is to say,