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for the circle one with section I, II, and III… did people say 24?

What was the absolute value question??

There was one radius 5 and another ratio one pie/2

i got 10rad2

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why is it 10 rad 2

@babuds How did you get 10rad2?

@16elir

that was definitely 32 fam

also I’m not sure why people had trouble wit hthe absolute value question. I found it relatively straightforward and got 0 but maybe i did it wrong

@16elir - I thought the region question was 32. 24+8

How are you all getting 10rad2? I thought it was 2rad5…don’t even remember 10rad2 being an answer choice.

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@MusicManatee

I made an educated by drawing a square in a circle. Since the edge length of the square was 20 the diameter of the circle clearly greater than 20. So the radius could not have been 10. But it could not have been 20 either. So I was left with either 10 rad 2 or 10 rad 3.

I think I just estimated the diameter to be 30 and 10 rad 2 was the closest to that.

@glasshours 10rad2 was one of the answers for finding the radius of a sphere than can fit within a cube or something.

@chrysanthemum14 actually they were asking for the circle in a square…

@Chrysanthemum14 - I thought the circle was INSIDE the square…

@Chrysanthemum14 wasn’t the sphere in the cube though?

10rad2 bcause its a 45 45 triangle if the sides are all 20. diagaonal is 20rad2. so divide by 2 to get radius 10rad2

@yousefk yes I got sqrt(20) or 2sqrt(5) :slight_smile:

@MusicManatee - Okay, thanks!
Does anyone remember getting 2rad5 for another question?

I also got 10rad2 for the sphere inside the cube.

Circle with section was 32.

Section 3 was 8. Section 2 was 3 times greater than Section 3 = 24. Section 1 was half of the circle, 24 + 8 = 32.

@Anniel1004 oh yeah, I got pi/2 for one of the ratios