Thursday, May 8, 2014

Circumference, Area, and Pie

After taking a picture of this fruit pie (because everyone takes a picture of their food before they eat it these days) I noticed that this pie was a perfect example of a circle, and using some simple formulas, I could find its circumference and area.


After measuring a radii of the circle, I was able to calculate the area and circumference using the formulas shown above. 

But, why stop there? It also became apparent that I could inscribe a polygon inside the circle, and calculate the area of that as well. In this case, I used a trapezoid.


As shown above, I was able to calculate the area of this trapezoid using Theorem 11-5.

It's seems that everything, even a fruit pie, has some relation to math, and more specifically: geometry. 

-RO5


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