Sunday, December 6, 2009

Fox 58

5 comments:

  1. Do you have the details Joe?

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  2. Here's my working: WLOG, if you assume half of the square side to be of unit length then area of the square = 4 = πR^2 or R= √(4/π) and the y-co-ordinate of the point where the vertical side of square intersects with the circle is=√((4-π)/π). We can now say, sin(ξ)=√(π/4)√(π/4)–(√((4-π)/π) √((4-π)/π))/(√(4/π)√(4/π))= π/4-(4-π)/4 =(2π-4)/4=(π-2)/2

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  3. I set the area of circle and square equal to each other.

    (pi)r^2 = (2rcos(theta))^2

    (If you draw a line from O to middle right of square, you get angle theta from that line to the next red line or the red line below the other one.)

    Then you can cancel out r^2 and find that new angle theta by doing some arithmetic. Once you find that angle, you multiply it by 8 and subtract that number by 360. Once you have that number, divide it by 4 and that is the angle you are looking for. Then just sin of that angle and you get .57

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  4. Thank you six. Your work confirms the answer.
    You can also see: "non-overlapping areas are equal", and rest will follow.
    Thank you.

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