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Geometry Difficulty 4.3 AIME Find the answer Italy

Problem:

Inside a circle of radius 11, 33 arcs of a circle, also of radius 11, are drawn, centered at the vertices of an equilateral triangle inscribed in the circle. What is the area of the shaded region?

Pick one

Solution

Solution:

The answer is (D). The arcs drawn inside the circle have the same radius as the circle itself. As a consequence, by equidecomposition of the circle, the area of the shaded part in figure 1 is equal to that of the shaded part in figure 2, that is, it is equal to the area of the hexagon inscribed in a circle of unit radius. The side of the hexagon is equal to the radius (that is, it equals 11); the area of the hexagon is 66 times that of the triangle OPQOPQ.

figura 1

Figure 2
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As a consequence,
Aesagono=612132=332. \mathrm{A}_{\text{esagono}} = 6 \cdot \frac{1}{2} \cdot 1 \cdot \frac{\sqrt{3}}{2} = \frac{3 \sqrt{3}}{2}.

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