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Problem
A decorative window is made up of a rectangle with semicircles at either end. The ratio of to is . And is 30 inches. What is the ratio of the area of the rectangle to the combined area of the semicircles?
Solution
We can set a proportion:
We substitute with 30 and solve for AD.
We calculate the combined area of semicircle by putting together semicircle and to get a circle with radius . Thus, the area is . The area of the rectangle is . We calculate the ratio:
Note that we could have solved this without the measurement of inches.
See Also
2010 AMC 8 (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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