SOLUTION: Mr. T owns a barn that is 10 feet by 20 feet. He has a dog that is a pain and keeps escaping from his yard. So he puts a stake I to the ground 5 feet from the edge of the barn as s

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Question 734935: Mr. T owns a barn that is 10 feet by 20 feet. He has a dog that is a pain and keeps escaping from his yard. So he puts a stake I to the ground 5 feet from the edge of the barn as shown in the picture. If the dog is attached to the stake by 30 feet of rope, find the total area that the dog can play in.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
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To find the playing area for the dog, we will need the equation for the 
area of a triangle, A = .5bh, b = the base, and h = the height, and the 
area of a sector of a circle,  A = expr%28n%2F360%29pi%2Ar%5E2, where n is the number of 
degrees in the central angle of the sector, and r is the radius.

The playing area consists of 4 parts:

1. Triangle IAD, which has area .5(5)(10) = 25 square feet.
2. The sector with center I, enclosed by the red arc from E
clockwise to F.  It has center I. and radius 30'. We calculate
the angle AID from tan(AID)=AD%2FIA=10%2F5=2, so angle AID = 63.435°,
and the large sector has central angle 360°-63.435° or 296.565°.
The area of the large sector is expr%28296.565%2F360%29pi%2A30%5E2 = 2329.216
3. The sector with center D, enclosed by the green arc from F
clockwise to C.  It has center D. We calculate its radius DF by 
subtracting the hypotenuse ID from IF.  The hypotenuse ID is found 
by the Pythagorean theorem: 
IDČ = IAČ + ADČ
IDČ = 5Č+10Č
IDČ = 25+100
IDČ = √125
 ID = √25·5
 ID = 5√5
 ID = 11.180
So radius DF is 30-11.180 = 18.820. Its central angle is the same as
angle AID because transversal FI cuts parallel lines DC and IE.
So the sector bounded by the green arc has area expr%2863.435%2F360%29pi%2A18.820%5E2 = 196.065 square feet.

4. The sector with center B, enclosed by the blue arc from E
counter-clockwise to G.  It is a quarter of a circle with radius
5, and a central angle of 90° so its area is expr%2890%2F360%29pi%2A5%5E2,
or 19.635 square feet.

Adding them up, we get

  25      square feet from the triangle
2329.216  square feet from the largest sector
 196.065  square feet from the sector at the top
  19.635  square feet from the sector on the right
---------
2569.916  square feet.

Round that to 2570 square feet. 

Edwin