Melissa is making a piece for a stained glass window that has the shape and measures shown below. Point C is the center of the p
artial circle that forms one corner of the stained glass piece. Which area is the closest to the area of the stained glass piece in square inches? Use 3.14 for π
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Hi!
We are given the information found in the picture below.
Note: The directions aren't correct, but the triangle works for this problem.
The "direct path" is the hypotenuse of this triangle.
To find this, we use the Pythagorean Theorem, where and
are 2 legs of the triangle, and
is the hypotenuse, aka the longest side of any triangle:
We know and
and want
Therefore, is approximately
