• January 31st 2013, 01:48 PM
emily9843
A badge is made of a circle centre O, with radius 5cm and a chord AB of length 6cm creating a blue minor segment at the bottom. Give all your answers to 1 decimal place.

Find:
The angle AOB at the centre
The length of the minor arc AB
The area of the triangle AOB.
The area of the yellow major segment.

How do I do this? Please show the steps!! Thank you, I am so confused :(

Here is the screen shot of the question (it has a diagram) Please help me. thanks - also i just typed in random numbers to get the grey answers on the bottom
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• January 31st 2013, 02:02 PM
Plato
• January 31st 2013, 02:11 PM
emily9843
Cool. thanks i'll have a look now.
• January 31st 2013, 02:31 PM
HallsofIvy
One way to get the "angle at the center" is to use the cosine law: $c^2= a^2+ b^2- 2ab cos(C)$ where a, b, and c are the lengths of the three sides of a triangle and C is the angle opposite the side "c". Here, the two sides a, and b are the radii of length 5 cm and c has length 6 cm.
You could get the area of the triangle, now that you know three sides by "Heron's formula" $A= \sqrt{s(s-a)(s-b)(s- c)}$ where s is the "semi-perimeter", (a+b+c)/2.
The area of the entire circle is, of course, $\pi r^2= 25\pi$. The area of the "pie section", between the radii, is proportional to the part of $2\pi$ the angle, in radians, is, so its area is $25\pi\frac{\theta}{2\pi}= \frac{25}{2}\theta$ where $\theta$ is the angle you found in the first part of the problem. Subtract the area of the triangle, that you just found, to find the area of the blue section, then subtract that from the area of the entire triangle, $25\pi$ to find the area of the yellow part.