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A Circle has radius 4. A triangle with angles 68, 70.5 and 41.5 is inscribed in it. Find its area.


The answer is 18.53.

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2 solutions

Jordan Cahn
Dec 6, 2018

Call the vertices of our triangle A A , B B , and C C and call the center of the circle, O O . Construct radii O A \overline{OA} , O B \overline{OB} , and O C \overline{OC} . By the inscribed angle theorem, the measure of each central angle is double that of its corresponding inscribed angle. Thus m B O C = 8 3 m A O C = 14 1 m A O B = 13 6 \begin{aligned} m\angle BOC &= 83^\circ \\ m\angle AOC &= 141^\circ \\ m\angle AOB &= 136^\circ \end{aligned} The area of any triangle can be found from two sides and the included angle using the formula A = 1 2 s 1 s 2 sin θ A=\frac{1}{2}s_1s_2\sin \theta , where θ \theta is the angle included between sides s 1 s_1 and s 2 s_2 (for those wishing to prove this, start by constructing an altitude from angle C C ). Thus A r e a ( B O C ) = 1 2 4 2 sin 8 3 = 8 sin 8 3 A r e a ( A O C ) = 1 2 4 2 sin 14 1 = 8 sin 14 1 A r e a ( A O B ) = 1 2 4 2 sin 13 6 = 8 sin 13 6 \begin{aligned} \mathrm{Area}(\triangle BOC) &= \frac{1}{2}\cdot 4^2 \cdot \sin 83^\circ = 8\sin 83^\circ \\ \mathrm{Area}(\triangle AOC) &= \frac{1}{2}\cdot 4^2 \cdot \sin 141^\circ = 8\sin 141^\circ \\ \mathrm{Area}(\triangle AOB) &= \frac{1}{2}\cdot 4^2 \cdot \sin 136^\circ = 8\sin 136^\circ \end{aligned} Finally, A r e a ( A B C ) = A r e a ( B O C ) + A r e a ( A O C ) + A r e a ( A O B ) = 8 sin 8 3 + 8 sin 14 1 + 8 sin 13 6 18.532 \mathrm{Area}(\triangle ABC) = \mathrm{Area}(\triangle BOC) + \mathrm{Area}(\triangle AOC) + \mathrm{Area}(\triangle AOB) = 8\sin 83^\circ + 8\sin 141^\circ + 8\sin 136^\circ \approx \boxed{18.532}

Charan Sankar
Dec 6, 2018

Use formula area = 2 (r^2) Sin(A) Sin(B) Sin(C)

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