document.write( "Question 937864: The 4-leaf figure is obtained by drawing semicircles on each side of a square with side 8. Find the area of the shaded region.\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #571271 by MathLover1(20850)\"\" \"About 
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The square has area \"A=8%2A8=64\". \r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The top and bottom white region together have area \"64\" minus \"2\" times the area of the semi circle, that is,
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\n" ); document.write( "\"8-2%28pi%2Ar%5E2%2F2%29\"=> since \"r=4\" it will be \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"8-2%2A%28pi%2A4%5E2%2F2%29\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "=>\"8-2%2A%28pi%2A16%2F2%29\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "=> \"8-2%2A%288pi%29\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "=>\"8-16pi\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I will use this image because I cannot do shaded areas here:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "as you can see on a picture, radius is \"r=1\" (disregard it), our radius is \"r=4\"\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "The area of the quarter circle is \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"%28r%5E2pi%29%2F4=16pi%2F4=4pi\" \r
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\n" ); document.write( "\"%281%2F2%294%2A4=8\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Thus, the area of the half-leaf (in red) is \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"4pi-8\" \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "There are two per leaf and the area of one leaf is
\n" ); document.write( "\"2%284pi-8%29\"
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "therefore the area of four leaves is:\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"4%288pi-16%29\" \r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"32%2A3.14-64\"\r
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