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Suppose a sector of a circle with radius
r has a central angle of
\theta. Since a sector is a fraction of a full circle, the ratio of a sector's area A to the circle's area is equal to the ratio of a central angle to the measure of a full rotation of the circle. A full rotation of a circle is
2\pi radians. This proportion can be written as
\boxed{(A)/(\pi r^(2))=(\theta)/(2\pi)}. Multiply both sides by
\pi r^2 and simplify to get
\boxed{A=(\theta)/(2) r^(2)}, where
\theta is the central angle of the sector and r is the radius of the circle.

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