Areas of Sector and Segment of a Circle

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Areas of Sector and Segment of a Circle: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as Relation between Areas of Major and Minor Segments of a Circle, Length of an Arc of a Circle, Areas Related to Circles, Area of Sector of a Circle, Area of a Segment of a Circle & Relation between Areas of Sector and Segment of a Circle etc.

Important Questions on Areas of Sector and Segment of a Circle

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A triangular field, having grass, has sides 20 m, 34 m and 42 m respectively. Three horses are tied to each of the vertices with a rope of length 7 m. each. The horses start grazing the field. The area of the portion of the field that is ungrazed by the horses is_____m2.

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In the given figure, ABCPA is a quadrant of a circle of radius 14cm. With AC as diameter, a semi-circle is drawn. The area of the shaded region is
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Three horses are tethered with 7 metre long ropes at the three corners at a triangle field having sides 20m , 34m and 42m . The area of the plot which can be grazed by horses is:

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In the given figure, the centre of the circle is A and ABCDEF is a regular hexagon of side 6cm. The approximate area of segment BPF is (Take π=3.14)

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The length of the minute hand of a clock is 14 cm. The area swept by the minute hand in 5 minutes is

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In the figure a semicircle with centre O is drawn on AB. If ABP = 60° then the ratio of area of larger region to area of smaller shaded region is

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Length of Minute hand of a clock is 14 cm. Area [In cm2] formed by this hand in 5 minutes is  [Take π=227]

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The length of a minute hand of a clock is 6cm. What will be the area(approximate) of the sector swept by this minute hand with in 45 minutes.

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The time taken by the minute hand of a watch to describe an angle of 34π radians is

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A momento is made as shown in the figure. Its base PBCQ is silver plated from the front side.

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The silver plated area is (use π=227)

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ABC is an equilateral triangle. Find the area of the shaded region if the radius of each of the circle is 1 cm.
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A semicircle with AB as diameter is drawn. C is a point on semi circle such that arcAC and CB are congruent. D is the midpoint of the chord AC. Find the area of the shaded region.
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If PQ=QR=RS and four semicircles are drawn with PS, QR, PR, QS as a diameter. Find the values of A1+A3A4+A2=?
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Find the length of arc DE if the centroid of equilateral ABC lies on a circle drawn with B as a centre and BF =6 units.
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O is the centre of the semicircle and C is the centre of the quarter circle. If CO=1, find the area of the shaded region.
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If P and S are the centre of quarter circles and C1, C2 and C3 are the centre of semicircles A1, A2, A3 and A4 repressions the areas as shown in the diagrams, then
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Side AB of square ABCD is the diameter of semicircle drawn as per diagram. A quarter circle is drawn with D as a centre. Find x if the difference of areas of the two shaded regions is 18π cm2.
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PQR are centres of arcs drawn passing through centre O is the bigger circle. What is the area of shaded region if PQ, QR and RP are congruent?
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Arcs are drawn by taking every vertex of Hexagon as centre. If the smallest diagonal is 6 cm, then find the perimeter of the shaded region.
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 If P, Q represents the area of sectors, OC=CD  and AOB=COD. Then find the ratio of P and Q.
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