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By adjusting the radii for the concentric circles:

Aring = Ared - Ablue

Get: Aring = Ablue

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Area of the Ring outer circle inner circle
Radii of circle: rred = 8 rblue = 0 Enter a radius to address the task

Area of circle: Ared = 201.06193 Ablue = 0 Aring =

make ratios available

10 0
rred/rblue =
9
8
Ared/Ablue =
7
Aring = Ared - Ablue
6
Aring/Ablue =
5
Get: Aring = Ablue
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TASK
2
1
Can you set a radius for the inner circle
0
that will get the Aring = Ablue?
-10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1-1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

-2
-3
What value did you decide on?
-4
-5
-6
-7
-8
-9
-10
Sinex 2008

Drawing the Circles:

q x y x y radius area
 0 8 0 0 0 0 0
0.25 7.7512994 1.9792317 0 0 1 3.1415927
0.5 7.0206605 3.8354043 0 0 2 12.566371
0.75 5.853511 5.4531101 0 0 3 28.274334
1 4.3224184 6.7317679 0 0 4 50.265482
1.25 2.5225789 7.591877 0 0 5 78.539816
1.5 0.5658976 7.9799599 0 0 6 113.09734
1.75 -1.425968 7.8718876 0 0 7 153.93804
2 -3.329175 7.2743794 0 0 8 201.06193
2.25 -5.025389 6.2245856 0 0 9 254.469
2.5 -6.409149 4.7877772 0 0 10 314.15927
2.75 -7.394419 3.0532879 0 0
3 -7.91994 1.1289601 0 0
3.25 -7.953037 -0.865561 0 0 Idea from: Rob Kimball, AMATYC: The Right Stuff
3.5 -7.491653 -2.806266 0 0 Workshop at MMATYC Conference 2008
3.75 -6.564475 -4.572491 0 0
4 -5.229149 -6.05442 0 0
4.25 -3.5687 -7.159915 0 0
4.5 -1.686366 -7.820241 0 0
4.75 0.3008172 -7.994342 0 0
5 2.2692975 -7.671394 0 0
5.25 4.0966838 -6.871476 0 0
5.5 5.6693582 -5.644323 0 0
5.75 6.8895393 -4.066233 0 0
6 7.6813623 -2.235324 0 0
6.25 7.9955953 -0.265434 0 0
6.5 7.812701 1.7209599 0 0
 This graph responds to changing the yellow radii cells.

350
0 201.06193 A = pr2 0 0
8 201.06193 0 0
300 8 0 0 0

250

area,200
A
150

100

50

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
radius of circle, r

This is what we want: Ablue = Ared/2

The answer using algebra

Try to get it by varying
the radius of the blue circle!!!!