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Two Semicircles

The diagram shows two semicircles.
$$CD$$ is a chord of the larger circle and is parallel to $$AB$$. The length of $$CD$$ is 8m. What is the area of the shaded region (in terms of $$\pi$$)?

1 December

What is area of the largest area rectangle which will fit in a circle of radius 10?

Cutting Corners

The diagram below shows a triangle $$ABC$$. The line $$CE$$ is perpendicular to $$AB$$ and the line $$AD$$ is perpedicular to $$BC$$.
The side $$AC$$ is 6.5cm long and the lines $$CE$$ and $$AD$$ are 5.6cm and 6.0cm respectively.
How long are the other two sides of the triangle?

Quarter Circle

Source: Maths Jam
A quarter circle is drawn in a square. A rectangle is drawn in the corner of the square which touches the circle and has sides of length 8 and 1.
What is the length of a side of the square?

Balanced Sets

A set of points in the plane is called 'balanced' if for any two points $$A$$ and $$B$$ in the set, there is another point $$C$$ in the set such that $$AC=BC$$ (here $$AC$$ is the distance between $$A$$ and $$C$$).
For all $$n\geq3$$, find a balanced set of $$n$$ points.

Squared Circle

Each side of a square has a circle drawn on it as diameter. The square is also inscribed in a fifth circle as shown.
Find the ratio of the total area of the shaded crescents to the area of the square.

Two Triangles

Source: Maths Jam
The three sides of this triangle have been split into three equal parts and three lines have been added.
What is the area of the smaller blue triangle as a fraction of the area of the original large triangle?

Dodexagon

In the diagram, B, A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L are the vertices of a regular dodecagon and B, A, M, N, O and P are the vertices of a regular hexagon.
Show that A, M and E lie on a straight line.