Friday, May 2, 2014

Decorative Segment

 I was walking through my living room when suddenly I saw a Chinese style decorative plate and it happened to remind me of our latest chapter of geometry. I decided to show how to find the area of a segment.


As you can see, I went in GSP and drew what it would look like. I drew two radii, which happened to form a 120 degree angle. Area is pi radius squared, so I divided it by three because the circle was cut into three equal sections. Then I calculated the area of the triangle with the Pythagorean Theorem and subtracted the whole section from the area of the triangle. (~WM5)

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