Area - circles, sectors and segments

  • Semicircle Stack
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    Semicircle Stack

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    What is the total area enclosed by the three semicicles?

  • Two Shapes & Printer Ink
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    Two Shapes and Printer Ink

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    If I print this page which shape will require the more yellow ink?

  • Efficient packing
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    Efficient Packing

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    How efficiently can you pack together disks?
  • Round and Round
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    Round and Round

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Prove that the shaded area of the semicircle is equal to the area of the inner circle.

  • Geometry and Measure - Short Problems
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    F'arc'tion

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    At the corner of the cube circular arcs are drawn and the area enclosed shaded. What fraction of the surface area of the cube is shaded? Try working out the answer without recourse to pencil and paper.

  • Giant Holly Leaf
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    Giant Holly Leaf

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Find the perimeter and area of a holly leaf that will not lie flat (it has negative curvature with 'circles' having circumference greater than 2πr).
  • Two circles
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    Two Circles

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Draw two circles, each of radius 1 unit, so that each circle goes through the centre of the other one. What is the area of the overlap?

  • The Pillar of Chios
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    The Pillar of Chios

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Semicircles are drawn on the sides of a rectangle. Prove that the sum of the areas of the four crescents is equal to the area of the rectangle.

  • Crescents and triangles
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    Crescents and Triangles

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you find a relationship between the area of the crescents and the area of the triangle?

  • Running Race
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    Running Race

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Weekly Problem 13 - 2006
    If three runners run at the same constant speed around the race tracks, in which order do they finish?