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by tariqal » Sun Oct 30, 2011 7:22 am
Sorry if this is a repost, but it's hard to search for questions in the forums. Can anyone help with the below?


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it seems I'm getting hung up on trying to find the height of the triangle, which forms one of the sides of a right-angled triangle for which the hypotenuse is BC. Thanks!

EDIT: making this a bit more searchable for others as well by retyping the question here:

"In the figure above, the radius of the circle with center O is 1 and BC = 1. What is the area of the triangular region ABC?"
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by tpr-becky » Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:32 am
the trick to this problem is to know that the two ends of a diameter that are brought together at the edge of the circle to create a triangle create a right triangle. Thus ABC is a right triangle and AC is the hypotenuse. AC is 2 and BC = 1 thus AB^2 + 1^2 = 2^2 or AB^2 = 3 thus AB = sqrt 3.

In a right triangle the two legs are the base and height. Thus the areas is 1/2(sqrt3)(1) = sqrt3/2
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by tariqal » Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:12 pm
Thanks, Becky, that was clear. These tricks from the grade school days come swooshing back when they're pointed out!
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