An athlete training for the Olympics women's each lap for a 4 lap race in the following times: 54.73, 54.56, and 54.54 seconds.
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Answer:
take x=2.515834 and r=14.31386
Step-by-step explanation:
Let us call the the lenght of the side of the square as x. The total lenght of the wire is 100. Note that if we have a square of side x, it has a perimeter of 4x. That means, that we need a wire of length 4x to build a square of side x. Note that if we take a wire of length 4x, we have that the remainder is 100-4x. We will use this to form a circle. As for the square, since we are using the wire of length 100-4x to build a circle, it must happen that the perimeter of the circle is 100-4x.
Recall that the perimeter of a circle of radius r is , so in this case , we have that
which implies that
.
Now, recall that the area of a square of side x is . Also, recall that the area of a circle of radius r is
. In our case, the area of the circle is given by
Also, we are given that the sum of the areas of both figures is 650. That is
By substracting 650 on both sides and multiplying by this equation is equivalent to
if we expand and then group each term of x, x^2 we get :
Recall that given a cuadractic equation of the form the solution is given by
In this case, the existence of a real solution is given by the expression . For it to have a real solution, it must happen that
In this case, b=-800, c = 100^2-650\cdot 4\pi, a = 4\pi+16[/tex]
For this values, we get that , so the is a solution for our problem.
In this case,
and are the two possible solutions for this problem. We can check that this values of x fulfill our restrictions. Note that if x=25.4891, by replacing in the value of r, we get that r=-0.3113853. Since r is the radius of the circle, it must be positive. Hence, x=25.4891 is discarted.For x=2.515834 we get a value of r=14.31386, so this is the answer