SOLUTION: 3. A dart hits a dartboard that is in the shape of a square with sides of 4 m. There are four congruent circles inside the square that are all touching. The shaded region is everyt
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Question 320366: 3. A dart hits a dartboard that is in the shape of a square with sides of 4 m. There are four congruent circles inside the square that are all touching. The shaded region is everything but the 4 circles. What is the probability that the dart will land in a circle?
a. 21%
b. 25%
c. 50%
d. 79% Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A dart hits a dartboard that is in the shape of a square with sides of 4 m. There are four congruent circles inside the square that are all touching. The shaded region is everything but the 4 circles. What is the probability that the dart will land in a circle?
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Draw the pictures and you will see the diameter of each of the
circles is 2 m; so each radius is 1m.
So the area of each circle is pi sq meters.
So the area of the four circles is 4pi sq meters.
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The area of the square is 16 sq meters.
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P(land in a circle) = 4pi/16pi = 1/4 = 25%
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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a. 21%
b. 25%
c. 50%
d. 79%
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