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A circle inscribed in a triangle inscribed in a circle |
2012-04-26 |
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From Maty: How do i find the area of a triangle inscribed a circle while another smaller circle is circumscribed by the same triangle and the radius is 8. Answered by Chris Fisher. |
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A circle drawn around a equilateral triangle |
2012-04-01 |
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From BIMAL: what is the diameter of a circle drawn around a equilateral triangle of size 6 cm Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A circle inscribed in a quarter circle |
2012-02-20 |
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From sonam: ABC is a quarter circle and a circle is inscribed in it and if AB=1cm than find radius of a small circle. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A cube inscribed in a sphere |
2012-01-23 |
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From Gelo: What are the largest volume and total surface area of a cube that may be inscribed inside a sphere whose radius is 5 kilometers. Answered by Walter Whiteley. |
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A circle inscribed in a regular octagon |
2012-01-16 |
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From Eric: I have a circle inscribed in a regular octagon. How do I determine the length of one side of the octagon if I know the radius of the circle (2.75 inches) ? Answered by p. |
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A trapezoid inscribed in a circle |
2011-10-02 |
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From Greg: A trapezoid is inscribed within a circle.
The two interior angles who share the longest side are 70 and 80.
The arc whose chord is the longest side has a length of 120.
Find the other two interior angles of the trapezoid, and the other three arc lengths. Answered by Chris Fisher. |
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A regular hexagon inscribed in a circle |
2011-07-18 |
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From Courtney: If ABCDEF is a regular hexagon inscribed in a circle of
radius r, prove that the length of each side of the hexagon
equals r. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A rectangle is inscribed in a circle |
2011-07-17 |
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From Alexea: A rectangle is inscribed in a circle of diameter 15in. Express the perimeter as a function of the width x. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A circle inscribed in a triangle |
2011-05-07 |
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From Aishwarya: The angles of a triangle are 50, 60, and 70 degrees, and a circle is touches the sides at A, B, C. Calculate the angles of the triangle ABC. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A circle is inscribed inside an isosceles trapezoid |
2011-02-25 |
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From priyam: a circle is inscribed inside an isosceles trapezoid (with parallel sides
of length 18 cm and 32 cm) touching all its four sides.
find the diameter of the circle.
thanks for help!! Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Limiting Cases in Geometry |
2010-09-22 |
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From Niki: Consider a rectangle inscribed in a circle with a radius or R. What are the possible perimeters for the rectangle? Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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A square inscribed in a circle |
2010-05-25 |
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From Middle: what is the perimeter of a square inscribed in a circle of radius 5.0 inches? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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An isosceles trapezoid is inscribed in a circle |
2010-04-06 |
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From Abby: An isosceles trapezoid whose bases have lengths 12 and 16 is inscribed in a circle of radius 10. The center of the circle lies in the interior of the trapezoid. Find the area of the trapezoid Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A regular hexagon and an equilateral triangle in a circle |
2010-04-05 |
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From Beth: A regular hexagon and an equilateral triangle are both inscribed in the same circle so that the hexagon and the triangle share three vertices. The radius of the circle is 10cm. What is the difference between the area of the hexagon and the area of the triangle? Answered by Chris Fisher. |
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A rectangle inscribed in a circle |
2010-03-24 |
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From sadiq: here is the question,
in my mathematics book there is equation of the area of the rectangle
inscribed in a circle having equation x^2+y^2=a^2
and the area of rectangle is 4xy=4x(a^2-b^2)^1/2
i don't know what is b but a is surely the radius
(i want the derivation for the area of rectangle). Answered by Harley Weston. |
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A related rates problem |
2010-03-03 |
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From Amanda: A circle is inscribed in a square. The circumference of the circle is increasing at a rate of 6 inches per second. As the circle expands, the square expands to maintain the tangency. Determine the rate at which the area of the region between the circle and square is changing at the moment when the cricle has an area of 25(pi) square inches. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A regular pentagon |
2009-12-14 |
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From Jamie: A regular pentagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 4.5 cm.
Determine its perimeter and area to one decimal place!
Thank YOU ! :) Answered by Penny Nom. |
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An equilateral triangle is inscribed in a circle |
2009-12-06 |
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From anna: An equilateral triangle is inscribed in a circle of radius 6. Find x and the length of
one side of the equilateral triangle. The picture is a triangle where the corners touch the
sides of a circle and there is a line drawn down the middle of the triangle. A point labeled
D which is in the triangle but im pretty sure that its marking the radius of the circle.
From that point D is a line going from that point to the bottom left corner of the triangle.
So this line shall make another mini triangle. The bottom of the big triangle is then split
into 2 segments and the left segment is labeled x. Please help for I am stuck! Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A pentagon inscribed in a circle |
2009-07-29 |
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From Faisal: O is the center of the circle. Sides AB and AE are equal. Angle B = 95,
angle C = 130, angle D = 138. Find angles A and E.
Diagram is attached.
Best,
Faisal Answered by Chris Fisher. |
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A max-min problem |
2009-04-20 |
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From Charlene: A fixed circle lies in the plane. A triangle is drawn
inside the circle with all three vertices on the circle and two of the vertices at the
ends of a diameter. Where should the third vertex lie to maximize the perimeter
of the triangle? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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The volume of water in a cone |
2009-03-17 |
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From Freddie: A ball of diameter 20cm rests in a conical container whose angle with the slant height and the vertical axis is 25degrees. if water is poured into the container just enough to touch the bottom of the ball, find the quantity of water in the container. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A regular decagon is inscribed in a circle |
2009-03-12 |
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From Renata: A regular decagon is inscribed in a circle of diameter 36 feet. Approximate the perimeter and area of the decagon. Answered by Robert Dawson. |
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A sphere in a cone |
2009-02-10 |
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From Shubham: An upturned conical vessel of radius 6cm and height 8cm is completely
filled with water. A sphere is lowered in the conical vessel filled with
water and the size of sphere is such that it just touches the sides of
cone and is just immersed. What fraction of water overflows? Answered by Harley Weston. |
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A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle. |
2009-01-26 |
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From Thejas: A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle. If the perimeter of the hexagon is 42 inches, how many inches are in the circumference of the circle?
How do you express this in the terms of pi? Answered by Robert Dawson and Penny Nom. |
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Three circles inscribed in a circle |
2008-12-18 |
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From seema: three equal circles each of radius 1 cm are circumscribed by a larger circle.find the perimeter
of circumscribing circle? Answered by Robert Dawson. |
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A triangle inscribed in a circle |
2008-11-17 |
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From Wanda: I have the same question that you guys answered 2007-03-02. I need more clarification. I UNDERSTAND how to get the radius=3, I get that it is an equilateral triangle so each vertex is 60 degrees, I get that area of triangle is 1/2 bh.
I DO NOT understand why we multiply area X 3 , or how to calculate the values of base and height. Please explain a little further. Thanks.
Wanda Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Inscribed Rectangle |
2008-07-30 |
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From Felicia: A rectangle whose base is twice its altitude is inscribed in a circle whose radius is 5 mm.
Find the area of the rectangle. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A square is inscribed within a square |
2008-07-19 |
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From Shirley: A square is inscribed within a square that has a side the measures 16
centimeters. The vertices of the smaller square are located at the midpoints
of the sides of the larger square. What is the area of the larger square, area of
a smaller square, the probability that a point chosen at random is in the
shaded are? Express the answer as a simplified fraction. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A cube inscribed in a right cone |
2008-07-16 |
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From Steven: A cube is inscribe in a right cone of radius 2 and height 5. What is the volume of the cone? Answered by Victoria West and Harley Weston. |
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An isosceles triangle inscribed in a circle |
2008-07-15 |
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From Anne: Here is the math problem quoted from book:
"An isosceles triangle is inscribed in a circle of radius R,
where R is a constant. Express the area within the circle but outside
the triangle as a function of h, where h denotes the height of the triangle." Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Two triangles and a circle |
2008-07-03 |
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From Anita: An equilateral triangle with side of length 1 cm is inscribed in a circle. A second equilateral triangle is circumscribed about the circle with all sides tangent to the circle. Find the length of a side of the second triangle. Answered by Harley Weston. |
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A circle inscribed in a square acre |
2008-06-19 |
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From Scott: Q'm trying to find out the sq footage of the corners of an acre. If an acre is 43,560 sq and if I have this right the surface area of the circumference is 1040 ft. what is the combined square footage of the 4 corners? Or the percentage the original acre? Answered by Harley Weston. |
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How many bricks I can place around a 26-inch circle? |
2008-05-22 |
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From Jon: I want to know how many bricks I can place around a 26-inch circle? There must be a formula other than trial and error. The length of the bricks is 6-inches. [How many 6-inch tangents can be in a 26-inch circle?
Thank you very much.
Jon Answered by Harley Weston. |
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A triangle inscribed in a semicircle |
2008-05-19 |
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From Larissa: Find the area of the shaded region outside of a triangle inscribed (meaning the all three points of the triangle are on the circle ) in a half circle of diameter 10 inches, if one side of the triangle is the diameter and the other side is 8 inches long. (A triangle that is inscribed in a triangle is a right triangle by definition.) Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A rectangle inscribed in a circle |
2008-04-27 |
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From sridhar: A rectangle with perimeter 28 cm inscribed in a circle of radius 5 cm
find the area ? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Angles subtended by the same arc |
2008-03-23 |
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From Reid: Prove that two inscribed angles subtended by the same arc are equal. Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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A pentagon inscribed in a circle |
2008-03-19 |
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From Elaine: My question as written on my homework is: Given a pentagon inscribed in a circle of radius r, determine a) the angle between any two sides of the pentagaon b) the perimeter of the pentagaon c) the area of the pentagon. I know this kind of counts as three questions, so if you can only answer one, that's okay. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks! Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Any regular polygon inscribed in a circle |
2008-03-17 |
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From lindsay: how do find the perimeter of a regular octagon inscribed in a circle with a radius of 5 units Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Inscribed square in a triangle |
2008-01-27 |
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From Adrian: Consider a right-angled triangle PQR, where QR is the base and PQ is the height.
QR=4cm and PQ=3cm. A square is inscribed in this triangle.Determine the length
of one side of the square. Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Finding the area of an isosceles triangle given one angle and the inradius |
2008-01-24 |
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From Saurabh: Given an isosceles Triangle, whose one angle is 120 and inradius is √3. So area of triangle is? Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Smallest cone containing a 4cm radius inscribed sphere |
2007-12-19 |
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From Eva: A sphere with a radius of 4cm is inscribed into a cone. Find the minimum volume of the cone. Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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A circle inscribed in a triangle |
2007-12-06 |
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From Linnea: I have a tringle with a circle inscribed in it. My teacher wants me to find the radius of the circle. This is what she gave me to work with. The triangle is ABC, AB = AC = 6, and BC = 4. She also told us to use A(squared) + B(squared) = C(squared). and that there are altitudes and and incenter. I have no idea how to do this. Answered by Harley Weston. |
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The area of an octagon inscribed in a circle |
2007-12-01 |
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From Harry: I need to find the area of an octagon in a circle. each point of the octagon touches the edge of the circle, and the circle's diameter = 4 cm. What is the area of the octagon Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A circle is inscribed in a square |
2007-10-28 |
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From Carolyn: A circle is inscribed in a square. What percentage of the are of the square is inside the circle. Answered by Victoria West. |
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Hexagon inscribed in a circle |
2007-10-26 |
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From VIVEK: what are the properties of a regular hexagon inscribed in a circle.
If the radius of the circle is given then how to find the side of the regular hexagon Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Size of a sphere fitting inside a cone |
2007-09-27 |
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From Juan: I am supposed to find the largest sphere that
will fit into a cone. I am assuming is a maximizing problem, but I am not sure
of what relation (between a cone and a sphere) to use. Answered by Penny Nom and Stephen La Rocque. |
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A cube in a sphere |
2007-09-11 |
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From Justin: What percent of the volume of a cube is occupied by the largest possible sphere centered in that cube? Answered by Stephen la Rocque. |
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A rectangle inscribed in a circle |
2007-09-11 |
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From Sobeida: A rectangle that is x feet wide is inscribed in a circle of radius 8 feet. What is the area of the rectangle as a function of x.
Thanks! Answered by Stephen la Rocque. |
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Find the area of a regular pentagon inscribed in a circle |
2007-08-03 |
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From Tracy: Can you please help me with finding the area of a regular pentagon inscribed in a circle using the Pythagorean theorem. The radius of the circle is 5 cm and each side AB = BC = CD = DE = EA = 6 cm. Answered by Stephen La Rocque, Leeanne Boehm and Chris Fisher. |
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Area of a star in a regular pentagon with side length 10cm |
2007-07-24 |
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From Chetna: A regular pentagon with side 10 cm has a star drawn within (the vertices match).
What is the area of the star? Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Any regular polygon inscribed in a circle |
2007-07-12 |
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From DJ: Circle with r=12" is inscribed in a regular octagon. What is the length of each octagon segment?
Note: Our answer works for any regular polygon inscribed in any circle. Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Finding the radius of an inscribed circle |
2007-07-05 |
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From Maria: I need to find the radius of a circle which is inscribed inside an obtuse triangle ABC. I know all the angles and all the lengths of the triangle. Answered by Stephen La Rocque and Chris Fisher. |
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Area of circles within a circle |
2007-04-08 |
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From Avaline: Imagine that there are four small circles inscribed in a bigger circle. The 4 small circles are shaded. What is the ratio of the area of the shaded region to the area of the unshaded region? Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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Radius of a circle in a square |
2007-04-05 |
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From Lori: A circle is inscribed in a square. What is the radius of the circle?
If there is a small rectangle with a 2 ft. top and a 1ft side at the left in the
square touching the corner of the circle. Answered by Stephen La Rocque and Penny Nom. |
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The area of an inscribed triangle |
2007-03-02 |
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From Caitlin: What is the area of an equalateral triangle inscribed in a circle whose circumference is 6 pie?? PLEASE HELP Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A pentagon inscribed in a circle |
2007-02-22 |
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From Amanda: Find the formula for calculating the length of the side of a pentagon given the radius of the circle that encloses it. Once you find the formula, find the length of the side of a pentagon which is enclosed in a circle 12 cm in diameter. So I need to know the formula, and the length of the side of the pentagon. Thank you!! Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Perimeter of an octagon inside a circle |
2007-02-08 |
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From Courtney: a regular octagon is inscribed in a circle with a radius of 12 cm. find the perimeter of the octagon? Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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A triangle inscribed in a semicircle |
2007-02-06 |
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From Benneth: Consider a triangle inscribed in a semicircle with a radius of R. What are th possible perimeters for the triagle? And the areas? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A rectangle inscribed in a circle |
2007-02-04 |
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From Benneth: Consider a rectangle with radius R inscribed in a circle. What are the possible areas of the rectangle? Answered by Steve La Rocque and Walter Whiteley. |
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A circle inscribed in an octagon |
2007-01-25 |
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From Anna: If I know that the sides of my octagon are 8 units, how do I determine the radius of an inscribed circle? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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An octagon inscribed in a square |
2006-12-29 |
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From Richard: An octagon is inscribed in a square so that the vertices of the octagon trisect the sides of the square. The perimeter of the square is 108 centimeters. What is the number of square centimeters in the area of the octagon? Answered by Walter Whiteley. |
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A regular polygon inscribed in a circle |
2006-12-19 |
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From Katy: If a regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 6.72 centimeters, find the length of one side of the pentagon. How would I got about explaining this? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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Creating a triangle in a circle |
2006-11-28 |
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From Dirk: My daughter has a school project where she must draw a circle and then draw an equilateral triangle inside the circle. She said you have to identify six points on the circle to correctly draw the triangle. How do you accomplish this? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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The area of regular pentagon inscribed in a circle |
2006-10-12 |
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From Admire: i need help on how to find area of regular pentagon inscribed in a circle of radius 8cm Answered by Stephen La Rocque and Penny Nom. |
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What is the diameter of the circle that contains this octagon? |
2006-09-21 |
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From Dave: if the distance between two parallel sides of an octagon is 350 cm, what is the diameter of the circle that contains this octagon (ie. a circle that touches all eight corners)? Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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A cube inscribed in a sphere |
2006-08-03 |
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From Glenn: Given the diameter of the sphere 10cm. find the largest cube inscribe in the sphere. Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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A square in a circle |
2006-04-05 |
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From Lisa: A square is inscribed in a circle. Determine the percent of the circle's area that is outside the square. Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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A regular octagon is inscribed in a circle |
2005-12-13 |
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From Carlin: A regular octagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 15.8 cm. What is the perimeter of the octagon? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A cube in a sphere |
2005-10-19 |
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From Damian: A sphere passes through the eight corners of a cube side 10cm. Find the volume of the sphere. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle. |
2004-12-08 |
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From Abraham: A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle. What is the ratio of the length of a side of the hexagon to the minor arc that it intercepts?
(1) pi/6
(2) 3/6
(3) 3/pi (This is the correct answer.)
(4) 6/pi
I found the length of the minor arc to be (pi)(r)/3 by doing a sixth of the circumference(2pi r).But I can't find the length of the radius to finish off the problem. If I knew the radius I would then plug it into the above and then use the radius again to be the length of the side because the triangle(one of the six of a hexagon) is equilateral. But can you show me how to get the radius to be 3? Thank you so much.
Answered by Walter Whiteley. |
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Largest square inside a circle |
2004-10-25 |
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From Bob: my granddaughter asked
what is the largest size square in inches
would fit in a 60 inch circle?
I believe it to be around 42.3 inches but
would like to teach her how to do it mathematically. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A cube is inscribed inside a sphere |
2004-08-18 |
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From A student: A cube is inscribed inside a sphere with radius sqrt8cm. Find the
(a) length of the cube
(b) volume of the space inside the sphere but outside the cube. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A circle around an irregular polygon |
2003-11-03 |
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From Dale: How do I find the properties of a circle that is drawn around an irregular polygon of (n) sides with the lenghts of each side given and all end points of the polygon lye on the circumferance of the circle? Answered by Chris Fisher. |
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A rectangle in a circle |
2003-09-27 |
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From Abdu: A rectangle ABCD is inscribed in a circle. If the length of AB is 5 and length of BC is 12, what is the area of circle outside the rectanlge ABCD? Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A sphere inscribed in a cone |
2003-08-10 |
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From A student: A sphere with radius 5cm is inscribed in a right circular cone 20 cm in height.find
(a) the base radius ,volume of the cone (b)volume of the shaded space( to 3 sig fig) Answered by Penny Nom. |
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A polygon inscribed within an ellipse - Part 2 |
2002-07-08 |
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From Steven: I recently sought your advice about a problem that I have been working on for eight years or so concerning a polygon inscribed within an ellipse. I think that I may have confused matters by the way in which I put the question and hope that the enclosed diagram will clear matters up. In the ellipse below I have drawn three chords inscribed within one quadrant ( this would pertain to a twelve sided figure within the whole ellipse). These chords are exactly the same length as each other, for example if the major axis of the ellipse was 360 and the minor axis 240 I have worked out that a twelve sided figure would have sides of 78.2487. However I worked this out empirically with a method that could only be described as gruelling I would be most grateful if you could tell me of a method that would work for any ellipse and any number of sides. Answered by Chris Fisher. |
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An equalateral polygon inscribed within an ellipse |
2002-06-30 |
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From Steven: How would you calculate the length of one of the sides of an equalateral polygon (of n sides) inscribed within an ellipse ( of any eccentricity ) where all of the vertices exactly touch the perimeter of the ellipse? I know that when the eccentricity is zero ( i.e a circle ) the formula: r * (sin(180/n) * 2) will suffice. But what about when the eccentricity is greater than zero? Answered by Chris Fisher. |
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A triangle in a circle of radius 6 |
2002-03-26 |
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From Marko: In a circle of radius 6, a triangle PQR is drawn having QR = 8 and PQ = 10. Determine the length of PR Answered by Chris Fisher. |
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The isosceles triangle of smallest area |
2002-03-08 |
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From Lettie: can you find the isosceles triangle of smallest area that circumscribes a circle of radius of one? Answered by Walter Whiteley. |
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Two circles inscribed in a rectangle |
2002-02-27 |
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From Amina: Given a rectangle with dimensions L=6, H=5. Two circles are inscribed such that they touch each other(circles are adjacent to each other) and also their circumferences touch 2 sides of the rectangle. One of the circles has radius=4. Find the radius of the other circle. Answered by Penny Nom. |
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An octagon inscribed in a circle |
2002-01-10 |
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From Kent: A circle of 30 in. diameter has an octagon (8 equal chords) inscribed in it. What is the length of each chord? Answered by Chris Fisher. |
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A tetrahedron inscribed in a cube |
1998-11-18 |
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From Jane: In analyzing a cube, I would like to find a tetrahedron inscribed in the cube which has none of its faces in the planes of the faces of the cube. I would like to see this tetrahedron outlined in the cube. My name is Jane and my e-mail address is BARSOIAN. I am an elementary education student. Answered by Walter Whiteley. |
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Two Inscribed Trapezoids |
1998-01-27 |
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From James: A hexagon inscribed in a circle has three consecutive sides each of length 3 and three consecutive sides each of length 5. The chord of the circle that divides the hexagon into two trapezoids, one with three sides each of length 3 and the other with three sides each of length 5, has length equal to m/n, where m and n are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+n. Answered by Haragauri Gupta. |
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