SOLUTION: A piece of wire 30com long is cut into two pieces. One of these is bent into a circle and the other is bent into a square enclosing the circle. What is the diameter of the circle?
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: A piece of wire 30com long is cut into two pieces. One of these is bent into a circle and the other is bent into a square enclosing the circle. What is the diameter of the circle? This question is from textbook Longman Mathematics
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A piece of wire 30com long is cut into two pieces.
One of these is bent into a circle and the other is bent into a square enclosing the circle.
What is the diameter of the circle?
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The diameter of the circle is also the side of the square
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Let x = the diameter and the side of the square
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Circum + perimeter = 30
pi*x + 4x = 30
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4.71416x = 30
x =
x = 4.2 cm is the diameter of the circle
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Check
circum: 4.2*pi = 13.195
perime: 4 * 4.2= 16.80
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wire length = 29.995 ~ 30
You can put this solution on YOUR website! In another solution to this problem there are some errors (which are probably typing errors). So I am going to provide a correct solution, based on the otherwise correct solution.
The diameter of the circle is also the side of the square
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Circumference (C) + perimeter of the square (P) = 30
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Let x = the diameter and the side of the square
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Substituting these into the equations
Using the approximation we get approximately.
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