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6-41.
Find the area of the shaded portion of each circle.
Remember the area of a circle is
. To find the area of the entire circle, substitute
for : Area Since only half the circle is shaded, we only need half of the entire area calculated. Therefore, divide your answer by
. It is about
square units.
See part (a). This time only one-fourth of the circle is shaded.