Is there Even any Area?

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I have a unit circle, which has a central angle of 27. 5 27.5^{\circ} . There are two points formed by the central angle B and B', which have lines tangent to both points. What is the area between the circle and the two tangent lines? (Round the answer to four decimal places.)


The answer is 0.0047.

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1 solution

Drex Beckman
Feb 20, 2016

I made a note on finding this area here . To start off, the angle given ( 27. 5 ) (27.5^{\circ}) is supplementary to the angle of the tangents' intersection. We can, then, easily find that angle: 180 27.5 = 152.5 180-27.5=152.5 . Since tangent lines form perpendicular angles, we can take the area of the sector, the area of the triangle formed by the lines, and take the difference, leaving the area in-between the triangles and the circle according to the formula on the note: a t = r 2 tan ( β 2 ) π r 2 α 360 a_{t}=\dfrac{r^{2}}{\tan\left ( \dfrac{\beta}{2} \right )}- \dfrac{\pi \cdot r^{2}\alpha}{360} If we apply the angles to the equation (remember, we have a unit circle, so r=1), we get 0.004715671 \boxed{0.004715671} , which we round to four places to get the correct answer of 0.0047 \boxed{0.0047} .

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