2005 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 5

The following problem is from both the 2005 AMC 12B #5 and 2005 AMC 10B #8, so both problems redirect to this page.

Problem

An $8$-foot by $10$-foot floor is tiles with square tiles of size $1$ foot by $1$ foot. Each tile has a pattern consisting of four white quarter circles of radius $1/2$ foot centered at each corner of the tile. The remaining portion of the tile is shaded. How many square feet of the floor are shaded?

[asy] unitsize(2cm); defaultpen(linewidth(.8pt)); fill(unitsquare,gray); filldraw(Arc((0,0),.5,0,90)--(0,0)--cycle,white,black); filldraw(Arc((1,0),.5,90,180)--(1,0)--cycle,white,black); filldraw(Arc((1,1),.5,180,270)--(1,1)--cycle,white,black); filldraw(Arc((0,1),.5,270,360)--(0,1)--cycle,white,black); [/asy]

$\mathrm{(A)}\ 80-20\pi      \qquad \mathrm{(B)}\ 60-10\pi      \qquad \mathrm{(C)}\ 80-10\pi      \qquad \mathrm{(D)}\ 60+10\pi      \qquad \mathrm{(E)}\ 80+10\pi$

Solution

There are 80 tiles. Each tile has $[\mbox{square} - 4 \cdot (\mbox{quarter circle})]$ shaded. Thus:

\begin{align*} \mbox{shaded area} &= 80 \left( 1 - 4 \cdot \dfrac{1}{4} \cdot \pi \cdot \left(\dfrac{1}{2}\right)^2\right) \\ &= 80\left(1-\dfrac{1}{4}\pi\right) \\ &= \boxed{80-20\pi}. \end{align*}

See also

2005 AMC 10B (ProblemsAnswer KeyResources)
Preceded by
Problem 7
Followed by
Problem 9
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All AMC 10 Problems and Solutions
2005 AMC 12B (ProblemsAnswer KeyResources)
Preceded by
Problem 4
Followed by
Problem 6
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
All AMC 12 Problems and Solutions

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