Find the area of the shaded region, where ABCD is a square of side 10 cm and semi circles are drawn with each side of the square as diameter. Take
and express your answer in
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Let the center of the square be O and let the midpoint of side C D be P . Also, define R as the region bounded by the arc O C and the line segment O C . By symmetry, the area of the shaded region will be 8 times the area of R .
Now the area of R is the area of sector O P C , (a quarter-circle), minus the area of triangle Δ O P C . Thus the area of R is
4 1 π ∗ ( P C ) 2 − 2 1 ( P C ) ( O P ) = 4 2 5 ∗ 3 . 1 4 − 2 1 ∗ 2 5 = 4 2 5 ∗ ( 3 . 1 4 − 2 ) = 7 . 1 2 5 .
The area of the shaded region is then 8 ∗ 7 . 1 2 5 = 5 7 .