12 multiple-choice questions, progressively harder.
For one circle, the circumference is 2π(x−2)2\pi(x-2)2π(x−2) cm and the area is π(7x−20)\pi(7x-20)π(7x−20) square cm. Which real x-values can describe this circle?
Solution
Correct answer: D
The circumference gives radius x-2, which must be positive. Equate its square with the area divided by pi.
Both x=3 and x=8 give positive radii and the stated positive areas.
For a circle measured in centimeters, the numerical area in square centimeters is thirteen times the numerical circumference in centimeters. What is its radius?
Correct answer: B
Use the numerical values in the stated units. A positive radius allows cancellation of pi times r.
AB is a diameter, C lies on the circle, AC is 9 cm, and BC is 12 cm. What is the disk's exact area?
Correct answer: C
An angle on a diameter is right, so AC and BC are the perpendicular legs.
Disk A has 5/85/85/8 of disk B's area. What is circle A's circumference divided by circle B's circumference?
Correct answer: A
The area ratio is the square of the positive length ratio.
Two circles have positive radii. Their circumference ratio, larger to smaller, is 5:2, and the radii differ by 6 cm. What is the sum of the disk areas?
The radius ratio is 5:2 too. Write the radii as 5 k and 2 k.
The radii are 10 cm and 4 cm.
A circle has exact circumference 24.3 cm, and 3.14<π<3.153.14<\pi<3.153.14<π<3.15. Which interval is guaranteed to contain its radius, measured in centimeters?
The radius is C divided by 2 pi. A larger positive denominator gives a smaller quotient.
An inner regular polygon has perimeter PPP and positive apothem hhh inside a radius-rrr circle. The parallel-sided tangent polygon has perimeter Pr/hPr/hPr/h. Which expression is the outer polygon area minus the inner polygon area?
The outer apothem is r, while the inner apothem is h.
Certified bounds give 3.14158<π<3.141603.14158<\pi<3.141603.14158<π<3.14160. How does 22/7 compare with pi?
Multiply the upper decimal bound by 7.
This is less than 22, so 22/7 exceeds 3.14160 and therefore exceeds pi.
Two disks have circumferences 8π8\pi8π cm and 15π15\pi15π cm. Their combined material is reshaped into one disk without any area loss. What is the new circumference?
The original radii are 4 cm and 7.5 cm. Add areas, not circumferences.
An estimate has guaranteed error at most 0.2 cm. Each refinement halves that error bound. What is the fewest refinements that make the bound less than 0.0001 cm?
The denominator must exceed 0.2 divided by 0.0001.
Ten refinements give denominator 1024, which is too small. Eleven give 2048, which exceeds 2000.
Two circles have total circumference 34π34\pi34π cm and total disk area 169π169\pi169π square cm. What is the larger radius?
If the radii are a and b, circumference gives their sum; area gives the sum of their squares.
Thus a and b are 5 and 12, the positive roots of the following equation.
Let AAA be a disk area and let T=Cr/2T=Cr/2T=Cr/2. Which information certifies that the absolute difference between A and T is less than 0.01 square unit?
Two numbers inside the same interval differ by less than its width.
When that width is less than 0.01, the desired error follows. A side count, a one-sided inequality or coarse rounding alone does not control the error.
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