Area of the colored region.
An circle of diameter 10 units is drawn around an ellipse with semi major axis = 5 units and semi minor axis = 3 units. What is the area of the blue colored region ?.
Hint : Area of an Ellipse where and are semi major and semi minor axes respectively
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1 solution
Area of the inner ellipse = π * 5 * 3 = 15*π
Area of the outer cirlce = π * 5 * 5 = 25*π
The blue colored shaded area =Area of the outer cirlce - Area of the inner ellipse =10*π
Area of an ellipse