Area - circles, sectors and segments

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Favourite

Compare Areas

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

Which has the greatest area, a circle or a square, inscribed in an isosceles right angle triangle?
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Partly Circles

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

What is the same and what is different about these circle questions? What connections can you make?
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Bull's Eye

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

What fractions of the largest circle are the two shaded regions?
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Get Cross

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

A white cross is placed symmetrically in a red disc with the central square of side length sqrt 2 and the arms of the cross of length 1 unit. What is the area of the disc still showing?
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Floored

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

A floor is covered by a tessellation of equilateral triangles, each having three equal arcs inside it. What proportion of the area of the tessellation is shaded?
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Squaring the Circle

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Bluey-green, white and transparent squares with a few odd bits of shapes around the perimeter. But, how many squares are there of each type in the complete circle? Study the picture and make an estimate.
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Bound to Be

Age

14 to 16

Challenge level

Four quadrants are drawn centred at the vertices of a square . Find the area of the central region bounded by the four arcs.
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Square Pegs

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Which is a better fit, a square peg in a round hole or a round peg in a square hole?
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Circular Area

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

How could you find out the area of a circle? Take a look at these ways.
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Handy Angles

Age

11 to 14

Challenge level

Weekly Problem 39 - 2008
How big is the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock at twenty to five?