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17) What is the area of the shaded region? Roundyour answer to the nearest hundredth.

17) What is the area of the shaded region? Roundyour answer to the nearest hundredth-example-1

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Ok, so:

We have to find the area of a sector of a circle. A sector is the region bounded by a central angle and its intercepted arc, such as the shaded region.

Let me draw the situation:

We want to find the shaded area ( Blue ).

For this, there's an equation which could be really useful. This is:

In a circle of radius r, the area A of the sector inside a central angle θ is:

A = (1/2) r²θ.

Where r is the radius and θ is the angle measured in radians!.

We got the angle measured in degrees, so we have to convert it to radians.

Now, we can replace in the equation:

A = (1/2) r²θ.

We know that r = 6 and θ = (2π)/3.

A = (1/2) (6)²(2π)/3.

A = (1/2) (36)(2π)/3.

Simplifying:

A = 12π, which is approximately: 37.6991.

If we round to the nearest hundredth; this is: 37.70

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