Find the area of the shaded figure, given that ABD is a sector of a circle. Round your answers to 3 s.f.
Please assume that:
The section CBD is completely shaded.
CD and CB are tangent to the circle centred at A
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It is assumed that D C and B C are tangents to the circular sector. So ∠ A D C = ∠ A B C = 9 0 ∘ . It follows that ∠ B C D = 6 0 ∘ . Draw line B D . Compute the length of line B D by cosine law. Compute the area of △ D A B and △ D C B using the formula 2 1 a b sin C . Take the sum, it is approximately 2 2 . 4 4 7 3 7 8 4 7 . Compute the area of the circular sector using the formula 3 6 0 θ π r 2 . It is approximately 1 3 . 5 7 1 6 8 0 2 6 . The difference of the two areas is the area of the shaded region, we have
A = 2 2 . 4 4 7 3 7 8 4 7 − 1 3 . 5 7 1 6 8 0 2 6 = 8 . 8 7 5 6 9 8 2 0 3