Areas Related to Circles
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1Find the area of a sector of a circle with radius 6 cm if angle of the sector is 60°.Show solution
Formula: Area of sector
Solution:
Answer: Area of the sector cm² cm²
2Find the area of a quadrant of a circle whose circumference is 22 cm.Show solution
Step 1: Find the radius.
Step 2: Find the area of the quadrant.
A quadrant corresponds to .
Answer: Area of the quadrant cm² cm²
3The length of the minute hand of a clock is 14 cm. Find the area swept by the minute hand in 5 minutes.Show solution
Step 1: Find the angle swept in 5 minutes.
The minute hand completes in 60 minutes.
Step 2: Find the area swept.
Answer: Area swept by the minute hand in 5 minutes cm² cm²
4A chord of a circle of radius 10 cm subtends a right angle at the centre. Find the area of the corresponding: (i) minor segment (ii) major sector. (Use π = 3.14)Show solution
(i) Area of minor segment:
Area of minor sector (with ):
Area of triangle OAB (right-angled at O, with OA = OB = 10 cm):
Area of minor segment:
(ii) Area of major sector:
Angle of major sector
Answers:
- Area of minor segment cm²
- Area of major sector cm²
5In a circle of radius 21 cm, an arc subtends an angle of 60° at the centre. Find: (i) the length of the arc (ii) area of the sector formed by the arc (iii) area of the segment formed by the corresponding chordShow solution
(i) Length of the arc:
(ii) Area of the sector:
(iii) Area of the segment:
Since and OA = OB = 21 cm, triangle OAB is equilateral (all sides = 21 cm).
Answer: Area of segment cm²
6A chord of a circle of radius 15 cm subtends an angle of 60° at the centre. Find the areas of the corresponding minor and major segments of the circle. (Use π = 3.14 and √3 = 1.73)Show solution
Area of minor sector:
Area of triangle OAB:
Since and OA = OB = 15 cm, is equilateral.
Area of minor segment:
Area of circle:
Area of major segment:
Answers:
- Area of minor segment cm²
- Area of major segment cm²
7A chord of a circle of radius 12 cm subtends an angle of 120° at the centre. Find the area of the corresponding segment of the circle. (Use π = 3.14 and √3 = 1.73)Show solution
Area of sector:
Area of triangle OAB:
Draw OM AB. Since , .
Area of segment:
Answer: Area of the corresponding segment cm²
8A horse is tied to a peg at one corner of a square shaped grass field of side 15 m by means of a 5 m long rope. Find (i) the area of that part of the field in which the horse can graze. (ii) the increase in the grazing area if the rope were 10 m long instead of 5 m. (Use π = 3.14)Show solution
The horse is tied at a corner of the square. The angle at each corner of a square is .
(i) Grazing area with rope = 5 m:
The horse can graze in a sector of radius 5 m and angle 90°.
(ii) Grazing area with rope = 10 m:
Increase in grazing area:
Answers:
- (i) Area of grazing with 5 m rope m²
- (ii) Increase in grazing area m²
9A brooch is made with silver wire in the form of a circle with diameter 35 mm. The wire is also used in making 5 diameters which divide the circle into 10 equal sectors. Find: (i) the total length of the silver wire required. (ii) the area of each sector of the brooch.Show solution
(i) Total length of silver wire:
- Circumference of circle mm
- Length of 5 diameters mm
- Total length mm
(ii) Area of each sector:
The circle is divided into 10 equal sectors, so each sector has angle .
Answers:
- (i) Total length of silver wire mm
- (ii) Area of each sector mm²
10An umbrella has 8 ribs which are equally spaced. Assuming umbrella to be a flat circle of radius 45 cm, find the area between the two consecutive ribs of the umbrella.Show solution
The 8 equally spaced ribs divide the circle into 8 equal sectors.
Area between two consecutive ribs (one sector):
Answer: Area between two consecutive ribs cm² cm²
11A car has two wipers which do not overlap. Each wiper has a blade of length 25 cm sweeping through an angle of 115°. Find the total area cleaned at each sweep of the blades.Show solution
Area cleaned by one wiper in one sweep:
Total area cleaned by two wipers:
More precisely:
Answer: Total area cleaned cm² cm²
12To warn ships for underwater rocks, a lighthouse spreads a red coloured light over a sector of angle 80° to a distance of 16.5 km. Find the area of the sea over which the ships are warned. (Use π = 3.14)Show solution
Area of the sector:
Answer: Area of the sea over which ships are warned km²
13A round table cover has six equal designs as shown in Fig. 11.11. If the radius of the cover is 28 cm, find the cost of making the designs at the rate of ₹0.35 per cm². (Use √3 = 1.7)Show solution
The 6 equal designs are 6 segments formed by 6 equal chords (each chord subtends at the centre, since ).
Area of one segment:
Area of one sector (angle ):
Area of equilateral triangle (since , OA = OB = 28 cm, triangle is equilateral with side 28 cm):
Area of one segment:
Total area of 6 designs:
Cost of making the designs:
Answer: Cost of making the designs (approximately)
14Tick the correct answer in the following: Area of a sector of angle p (in degrees) of a circle with radius R is
(A) p/180 × 2πR
(B) p/180 × πR²
(C) p/360 × 2πR
(D) p/720 × 2πR²Show solution
Justification:
The standard formula for area of a sector is:
This can be rewritten as:
Option (D) , which matches the standard formula.
Options (A) and (C) give arc length (not area), and option (B) has the wrong denominator (180 instead of 360).
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