The circle above has center O and area 9 π , what is the area of the Δ A B C , given that it is an equilateral triangle?
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wow thanks my friend made me get it wrong so that she could write in the correct answer :(
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oh my god i didn't say to get it wrong all i said was fill it in, its not my fault you couldn't do it :)
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@Special One – Josephine, Josephine, Josephine ;) :)
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We aren't told the angles are 60° so we can't assume the triangle is equalladeral
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"given that it is an equilateral triangle." - it is stated !
It says triangle is equilateral
We can see also a special 30-60-90 triangle here.
So the height 9π=πr² Radius of a circle=3cm Doubling up will be the height of a triangle. Cutting the triangle into half will get a special right triangle which satisfies the formula
Longer leg= (1/2)hypotenuse √3 6=1/2 h*√3 6x2/√3=hypotenuse/side of the triangle
12/√3≈6.928cm= Sides of the triangle
So, Area of a triangle is 1/2(bh) A=1/2(6.928*6) A=1/2(41.568) A=20.784cm²
An altitude of an isosceles triangle bisects it into two congruent triangles. Therefore, the two triangles formed are 30-60-90 triangles. The radius is 3 (You can find it by doing π 9 π ), so the height of the 30-60-90 triangles are 6. Tan(60) is 3 3 , so the side length of the equilateral triangle is 4 3 . Therefore, the area is 1 2 3 ≈ 20.78460
Area of a circle is π ⋅ r 2 . We can deduce simply that the radius is 3 . Now, imagine drawing a line segment from O to A B and A C , at the point where each segment intersect's the circle. The result would form two small equalateral triangles, with a combined angle of 1 8 0 . With circle theorems, we know that the angle above, C A B is 60. That means each respective angle is 30 degrees. We can solve this by using two 30 60 90 triangles added together: 1 2 ⋅ 3 ≈ 2 0 . 7 8 5 .
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A = π r 2 = 9 π ∴ r = 3
All the angles are 6 0 ∘ .
Let, B D = x , A B = 2 x and given A D = 6 c m
By Pythagorean theorem :
A D 2 + B D 2 = A B 2
3 6 + x 2 = ( 2 x ) 2 ⟹ 3 6 + x 2 = 4 x 2 3 x 2 = 3 6 ⟹ x 2 = 3 3 6 = 1 2
B D = x = 1 2 = 2 3
∴ A B = B C = 4 3
A r e a = 2 1 b a s e × h e i g h t ⟹ A = 2 1 × 6 × 4 3 ⟹ A = 1 2 3 = 1 2 × 1 . 7 3 2 0 5 = 2 0 . 7 8 4 6 0 square units .