Circle / Ellipse Hybrid

Calculus Level 5

Consider a circle and an ellipse:

x 2 + y 2 = 1 x 2 4 + y 2 1 = 1 \large{x^2 + y^2 = 1 \\ \frac{x^2}{4} + \frac{y^2}{1} = 1}

A point on either shape could be represented in polar coordinates, with r C ( θ ) r_C (\theta) and r E ( θ ) r_E (\theta) being the respective radii of the circle and ellipse as a functions of θ \theta . Let A C A_C and A E A_E be the areas of the circle and ellipse, respectively.

Suppose we make a hybrid shape, defined as follows:

r ( θ ) = σ r C ( θ ) + ( 1 σ ) r E ( θ ) A = A C + A E 2 \large{r ( \theta ) = \sigma \, r_C (\theta) + (1- \sigma) \, r_E (\theta) \\ A = \frac{A_C + A_E}{2}}

If r ( θ ) r (\theta) is the radius of the hybrid shape, σ \sigma is a constant, and A A is the hybrid shape area, what is 1000 σ \lfloor 1000 \, \sigma \rfloor ?

Note: \lfloor \cdot \rfloor denotes the floor function


The answer is 437.

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