Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Area of A Circle by Cutting Into Sectors
Area of A Circle by Cutting Into Sectors
Area of A Circle by Cutting Into Sectors
into Sectors
Divide just one of the sectors into two equal parts. We now have thirteen
sectors – number them 1 to 13:
We know that:
radius
π × radius
Now we just multply the width by the height to find the area of the
rectangle:
= π × radius2
Note: The rectangle and the "bumpy edged shape" made by the sectors are
not an exact match.
But we could get a better result if we divided the circle into 25 sectors (23
with an angle of 15° and 2 with an angle of 7.5°).
And the more we divided the circle up, the closer we get to being exactly
right.
Conclusion
Area of Circle = π r2
source : https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle-area-by-sectors.html