2014 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 12
Problem
A regular hexagon has side length 6. Congruent arcs with radius 3 are drawn with the center at each of the vertices, creating circular sectors as shown. The region inside the hexagon but outside the sectors is shaded as shown What is the area of the shaded region?
Solution
The area of the hexagon is equal to by the formula for the area of a hexagon.
We note that each interior angle of the regular hexagon is which means that each sector is of the circle it belongs to. The area of each sector is . The area of all six is .
The shaded area is equal to the area of the hexagon minus the sum of the area of all the sectors, which is equal to
See Also
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