Area of segments?

Geometry Level 1

The shaded segment in the circle below, with center O O has an area of 1 c m 2 cm^2 . The radius of the circle, in centimetres, is:

4 π \sqrt{\dfrac{4}{\pi}} 4 π \dfrac{4}{\pi} 2 π 2 \sqrt{\pi} 4 π 2 \sqrt{\dfrac{4}{\pi - 2}} 8 π \dfrac{8}{\pi}

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2 solutions

The area of a segment can be found out using the following formula:

A = 1 2 r 2 ( θ sin θ ) \large \color{#3D99F6} A = \dfrac{1}{2} r^2 (\theta - \text{sin} \theta )

where r is radius and θ \theta is in radians. In our case θ \theta = π 2 \dfrac{\pi}{2}

Hence we can solve for the following equation:

1 2 r 2 ( θ sin θ ) = 1 1 2 r 2 ( π 2 1 ) = 1 r 2 ( π 2 1 ) = 2 r 2 = 4 π 2 r = 4 π 2 cm \large \color{#D61F06} \dfrac{1}{2} r^2 (\theta - \text{sin} \theta ) = 1 \\ \large \color{#EC7300} \dfrac{1}{2} r^2 ( \dfrac{\pi}{2} - 1 ) = 1 \\ \large \color{#20A900} r^2 ( \dfrac{\pi}{2} - 1 ) = 2 \\ \large \color{#69047E} r^2 = \dfrac{4}{\pi - 2} \\ \large \color{#624F41} r = \sqrt{\dfrac{4}{\pi - 2}} \ \text{cm}

Hana Wehbi
Aug 2, 2018

The area of blue region and red region combined is: π r 2 4 . \large \frac{\pi r^2}{4}.

The area of the red triangle is : b a s e × h e i g h t 2 = r × r 2 . \large\frac{ base \times height}{2}= \frac{r \times r}{2}.

Thus, the area of the blue region is: π r 2 4 r 2 2 = 1 r 2 ( π 4 1 2 ) = 1 r 2 = 4 π 2 . \large \frac{\pi r^2}{4} - \frac{r^2}{2}=1\implies r^2(\frac{\pi}{4}-\frac{1}{2}) = 1\implies r^2=\frac{4}{\pi-2}.

Therefore, r = 4 π 2 . \boxed{ r = \sqrt{\frac{4}{\pi-2}}}.

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