How can I draw the figure shown above in rectangular coordinates, calculate the area and perimeter of the shaded region as a function of radius r of the outer circle, and find the points of intersection of the inner circles.
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Your question wants a relationship for r which I assume is the radius of the larger circle. You can get it like this:
yields $\frac{1}{2} (\pi -2) r^2$ All the shaded areas in terms of r:
$\left ( \pi -2\right )r^2$ Testing for the particular answer given by yode:
yields $4\pi - 8$ |
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Just for fun. By symmetry we need only consider the first quadrant.
Let the radius of the small circle be 1 (hence the radius of the large circle is 2). So the perimeter can be seen to be length of arc1+ arc2+arc3+arc4+arc5: Let $p_i$ represent arc i length. Now $p_1=p_2=p_4=p_5= \pi/2$ and arc length $p3= \pi/2 \times 2$. Hence total perimeter:
i.e. $12\pi$ For the area: area bounded by arc1 and arc 2 is 2 x (area of sector-area of triangle ABC):
The area bounded by arcs 3,4 and 5= area of quarter circle -area of 2 semicircles+ area of overlap:
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yielding:
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