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Question: find the radius (of the smaller circle) if the width of the shaded region is 2cm and i
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Question: find the radius (of the smaller circle) if the width of the shaded region is 2cm and its area is 176cm2 Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Let the radius of the inner circle be . Then the radius of the outer circle is
There are 2 ways to describe the area of the outer circle. One way is the standard formula for the area of a circle, namely
But since the radius of the outer circle is , the area would be .
But the area of the outer circle can also be defined as the area of the inner circle plus the area of the shaded region. The area of the inner circle is just and the area of the shaded region is . Since these two ways of describing the same area must be equal:
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