Star inside circle

Geometry Level 3

If the difference between the blue and yellow areas is 43, What is the radius of the circle ? Give your answer to one decimal number...


The answer is 5.2.

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2 solutions

Ahmed Almubarak
Oct 21, 2017

Rab Gani
Oct 24, 2017

We can make bigger regular pentagon by connecting the vertices of the triangles on the circle. Let the side of this bigger pentagon is x, and a is the longer sides of the isosceles triangle. We make connection between a and R the radius of the circle by using cos rule. x^2 = 2R^2 ( 1 – cos 72), x^2 = 2a^2 ( 1 – cos 108), then, a^2 = R^2 ( 1 – cos 72)/(1 – cos 108). The different between areas of blue region and yellow region = π R^2 – 10 (a^2 / 2) sin 36= 43. Then we found R = 5.2

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