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    The document describes an activity to discover the formula for the area of a circle. It involves drawing a circle, marking radii every 30 degrees, cutting the circle into sectors, and rearranging the sectors to approximate a parallelogram. By measuring the base and height, students can see that the area of the circle equals the area of the parallelogram. The formula for the area of a circle is then given as A = πr^2, where r is the radius. Examples are provided to demonstrate calculating the area of circles using this formula.

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    The document describes an activity to discover the formula for the area of a circle. It involves drawing a circle, marking radii every 30 degrees, cutting the circle into sectors, and rearranging the sectors to approximate a parallelogram. By measuring the base and height, students can see that the area of the circle equals the area of the parallelogram. The formula for the area of a circle is then given as A = πr^2, where r is the radius. Examples are provided to demonstrate calculating the area of circles using this formula.

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    The document describes an activity to discover the formula for the area of a circle. It involves drawing a circle, marking radii every 30 degrees, cutting the circle into sectors, and rearranging the sectors to approximate a parallelogram. By measuring the base and height, students can see that the area of the circle equals the area of the parallelogram. The formula for the area of a circle is then given as A = πr^2, where r is the radius. Examples are provided to demonstrate calculating the area of circles using this formula.

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    Area of A Circle

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    The document describes an activity to discover the formula for the area of a circle. It involves drawing a circle, marking radii every 30 degrees, cutting the circle into sectors, and rearranging the sectors to approximate a parallelogram. By measuring the base and height, students can see that the area of the circle equals the area of the parallelogram. The formula for the area of a circle is then given as A = πr^2, where r is the radius. Examples are provided to demonstrate calculating the area of circles using this formula.

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    Area of a Circle Activity 12.

    1 Equipment: You will need a compass, pair of scissors, ruler and protractor for this activity. Purpose: To discover a formula for the area of a circle. Step 1: Using the compass, draw a circle of radius 7 cm. Then mark the circle's centre and draw its radius.

    Step 2: Place the centre of the protractor at the centre of the circle and the zero line along the radius. Then mark every 30 around the circle.

    Step 3: Using a ruler and a pencil, draw lines joining each 30 mark to the centre of the circle to form 6 diameters. The diagram thus obtained will have 12 parts as shown below.

    Step 4: Colour the parts as shown below.

    Step 5: Cut out the circle and then cut along the diameters so that all parts (i.e. sectors) are separated. Step 6: Arrange all of the sectors to make a shape that approximates a parallelogram as shown below.

    Step 7: Using a ruler, measure the base and the height of the approximate parallelogram obtained in Step 6.

    Questions: 1. Calculate the area of the figure in Step 6 by using the formula: 2. What is the area of the circle drawn in Step 1? 3. It appears that there is a formula for calculating the area of a circle. Can you discover it? Formula for the Area of a Circle

    From the above activity, it is clear that by arranging the sectors of the circle as a parallelogram that:

    Remember: The area, A, of a circle is given by the following formula where r is the radius of the circle:

    Example 8

    Solution:

    So, the area is 616 m2. Note: To find the area of a region enclosed within a plane figure, draw a diagram and write an appropriate formula. Then substitute the given values and use a calculator, if necessary, to obtain the required area. Example 9 Find the area of a circle of whose diameter is 11 cm using = 3.14. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. Solution:

    So, the area is 94.99 cm2.

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