Target: Use proportions to calculate the area of sectors.
Warm-Up Find the area: How many degrees are in a circle?
Sector: Think “a slice of pizza”
5 cm
The area of the circle is 60 cm 2. Use a proportion to find the area of the sector. Write a proportion. Set the cross products equal. Multiply. Divide. The area of the sector is 15 cm 2.
The Macy family bought a family-sized chocolate chip cookie for dessert. Erin ate a slice of the cookie with a central angle of 37 ⁰. The entire cookie had an area of 249 square centimeters. Find the area of Erin’s slice to the nearest hundredth. Write a proportion. Set the cross products equal. Multiply. Divide. The area of Erin’s slice was approximately cm 2.
Find the area of the shaded sector in M. Round to the nearest hundredth. Find the area of the circle. A = πr 2 = (3.14)(4) 2 ≈ in 2 Write a proportion. Set the cross products equal ≈ 360x Solve by dividing by ≈ x The area of the sector is in 2.
Write a proportion and find the area of each sector. 1. Area of the circle is 37.8 cm². 2. Use 3.14 for . 12 km
What is a sector? Describe how to find the area of a circle when the area of the sector is given and the degree of the sector is known.
1. The scale factor between A and C is 4 : 3. The circumference of A is 45.8 m. a. Write a proportion that can be used to find the circumference of C. b. Find the circumference of C. 2. The diameters of two circles are 14 ft and 6 ft. The area of the large circle is ft². Find the area of the small circle.