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Example Questions
Example Question #41 : Radius
A 12x16 rectangle is inscribed in a circle. What is the area of the circle?
100π
90π
10π
50π
120π
100π
Explanation: Visualizing the rectangle inside the circle (corners touching the circumference of the circle and the center of the rectangle is the center of the circle) you will see that the rectangle can be divided into 8 congruent right triangles, with the hypotenuse as the radius of the circle. Calculating the radius you divide each side of the rectangle by two for the sides of each right triangle (giving 6 and 8). The hypotenuse (by pythagorean theorem or just knowing right triangle sets) the hypotenuse is give as 10. Area of a circle is given by πr2. 102 is 100, so 100π is the area.
Example Question #71 : Circles
A circle has a radius of 5 inches. What is the area of the circle in square inches?
The area of a circle is found by squaring the circle's radius and multiplying the result by .
Example Question #42 : Radius
A circle is inscribed in a square whose side is 6 in. What is the difference in area between the square and the circle, rounded to the nearest square inch?
The circle is inscribed in a square when it is drawn within the square so as to touch in as many places as possible. This means that the side of the square is the same as the diameter of the circle.
Let
So the approximate difference is in area
Example Question #96 : Geometry
Find the area of the shaded region:
The formula for the area of a circle is:
where is the radius of the circle.
In order to find the area of the shaded region, you must subtract the area of the inside circle from the area of the outside circle.
Therefore, the formula becomes:
Plugging in our values, we get:
Example Question #45 : Radius
Find the area of a circle with a circumference of .
The formula for the circumference of a circle is:
,
where is the radius of the circle.
To solve for the radius, plug in our existing values:
The formula for the area of a circle is:
,
where is the radius of the circle.
Plugging in our values, we get:
Example Question #46 : Radius
Find the area of the following circle:
The formula for the area of a circle is
,
where is the radius of the circle.
Plugging in our values, we get:
Example Question #231 : High School Math
Two equal circles are cut out of a rectangular sheet of paper with the dimensions 10 by 20. The circles were made to have the greatest possible diameter. What is the approximate area of the paper after the two circles have been cut out?
56
23
16
43
43
The length of 20 represents the diameters of both circles. Each circle has a diameter of 10 and since radius is half of the diameter, each circle has a radius of 5. The area of a circle is A = πr2 . The area of one circle is 25π. The area of both circles is 50π. The area of the rectangle is (10)(20) = 200. 200 - 50π gives you the area of the paper after the two circles have been cut out. π is about 3.14, so 200 – 50(3.14) = 43.
Example Question #232 : High School Math
Kate has a ring-shaped lawn which has an inner radius of 10 feet and an outer radius 25 feet. What is the area of her lawn?
525π ft2
275π ft2
125π ft2
175π ft2
325π ft2
525π ft2
The area of an annulus is
where is the radius of the larger circle, and is the radius of the smaller circle.
Example Question #233 : High School Math
A 6 by 8 rectangle is inscribed in a circle. What is the area of the circle?
The image below shows the rectangle inscribed in the circle. Dividing the rectangle into two triangles allows us to find the diameter of the circle, which is equal to the length of the line we drew. Using a2+b2= c2 we get 62 + 82 = c2. c2 = 100, so c = 10. The area of a circle is . Radius is half of the diameter of the circle (which we know is 10), so r = 5.
Example Question #234 : High School Math
A park wants to build a circular fountain with a walkway around it. The fountain will have a radius of 40 feet, and the walkway is to be 4 feet wide. If the walkway is to be poured at a depth of 1.5 feet, how many cubic feet of concrete must be mixed to make the walkway?
None of the other answers are correct.
The following diagram will help to explain the solution:
We are searching for the surface area of the shaded region. We can multiply this by the depth (1.5 feet) to find the total volume of this area.
The radius of the outer circle is 44 feet. Therefore its area is 442π = 1936π. The area of the inner circle is 402π = 1600π. Therefore the area of the shaded area is 1936π – 1600π = 336π. The volume is 1.5 times this, or 504π.