Semicircles on the Square

Geometry Level 3

Eight semicircles are drawn inside a square of side length of 20 as shown in the figure. Each semicircle has one end of its diameter in one of the vertex of the square and the other end of the diameter at a midpoint on one of the sides.

What is the sum of the area of the yellow region and the red regions in square units?


The answer is 200.

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3 solutions

Nick Coish
Apr 14, 2014

First, find the area of the total square

A s = 2 0 2 = 400 A_s = 20^2 = 400

Next, subdivide each corner of the square into a smaller square of side 5 (One square at each point where two semicircles meet, with diagonal to the nearest corner). We can then find the area of one orange section within this sub-square, by finding the area of the sub-square and subtracting the area of half of one of the semi-circles:

A , o r a n g e = A π 5 2 4 A_{\square, orange} = A_{\square} - \frac{\pi 5^2}{4}

Using this information we can then easily find the area of the orange segment of the square because it is composed of 8 quarter-circles, and 8 of these orange sub-square sections. Thus the area of the yellow and red section is:

A t o t a l = A s A o r a n g e = 400 ( 8 A 1 4 c i r c l e + 8 A , o r a n g e ) A_{total} = A_s - A_{orange} = 400 - (8\cdot A_{\frac{1}{4}-circle} + 8*A_{\square, orange})

A t o t a l = 400 8 ( π 5 2 4 + ( 5 2 π 5 2 4 ) ) = 400 8 5 2 ( 1 ) = 400 200 = 200 A_{total} = 400 - 8\cdot (\frac{\pi\cdot 5^2}{4} + (5^2 - \frac{\pi\cdot 5^2}{4})) = 400 - 8\cdot 5^2\cdot (1) = 400 -200 = 200

shortcut: (hahaha)

2 0 2 8 ( 5 2 ) = 200 20^{2} - 8*(5^{2}) = 200

what is the proof ?

Vighnesh Raut - 7 years, 2 months ago

brilliant approach !

Priyansh Saxena - 7 years, 2 months ago
Venture Hi
Mar 31, 2014

The equation of the circle is x^2+y^2=25. Rearrange, y=sqrt(25-x^2). Next, integrate the function to find the area under the curve from 0 to 5. You get 19.635. Take this is minus the area of the triangle of 25/2 from this and you have 7.135 unit square. Each red region is therefore 2* 7.135=14.27. Next, take the area of the square ( 20 20) of 400 minus the are of the semi circles (( 25 p/2) 8) of 314.159. You get 85.841 unit square. Since we remove the red regions earlier twice for each, we need to add them back twice. 14.27 4*2=114.16 unit sq. Lastly, add them both together 85.841+114.16=200

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