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What is the radius of the circle if the area is 50π and the angle is 80 degrees?

What is the radius of the circle if the area is 50π and the angle is 80 degrees?-example-1
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1) Considering that the sector of a circle can be found through the proportion:


\begin{gathered} 360^(\circ)------\pi\cdot r^2 \\ 80^(\circ)------50\pi \\ 80\cdot\pi\cdot r^2=360\cdot50\pi \\ 80\pi r^2=18000\pi \\ r^2=(18000\pi)/(80\pi) \\ r^2=225 \\ \sqrt[]{r^2}=\sqrt[]{225} \\ r=15 \end{gathered}

Note that, the area of a circle corresponds to 360º and 50pi to 80º in this question. The angle has been given in degrees.

2) SO, the measure of the radius is 15 units

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