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?
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First, find the area of the total square
A s = 2 0 2 = 4 0 0
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 □ − 4 π 5 2
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 = 4 0 0 − ( 8 ⋅ A 4 1 − c i r c l e + 8 ∗ A □ , o r a n g e )
A t o t a l = 4 0 0 − 8 ⋅ ( 4 π ⋅ 5 2 + ( 5 2 − 4 π ⋅ 5 2 ) ) = 4 0 0 − 8 ⋅ 5 2 ⋅ ( 1 ) = 4 0 0 − 2 0 0 = 2 0 0