A chord with a length of 9 runs from π12 to π8 radians on a circle. What is the area of the circle?

1 Answer
Jan 3, 2017

About 14872.2800 un2

Explanation:

The formula used to find the length of a chord is 2rsin(θ2)=l where r is the radius, θ is the measure of the arc, and l is the length of the chord.
One circle has 2π radians. If you take the difference of π12 and π8, you should get π24. This is your θ. Now you can plug in what you know and solve for r. r68.80405. You can plug that into the equation for the area of a circle, A=πr2 which yields about 14872.2800.