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EXAMPLES.

Find the area of a circle whose diameter is 56.
Ans. 2464.

2.

Find the area of a circle whose diameter is 13 ft. 4 in.
Ans. 1393 nearly.

3.

Find the area of a circle whose diameter is 24 poles.
Ans. 2 a. 3 r. 31 p.

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5.

is 47.

6.

Find the area of a circle whose diameter is 34ft. 10 in.
Ans. 953.4.3 sq. ft.

Find the circumference of a circle whose diameter
Ans. 1475.

Find the circumference of a circle whose diameter

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8. The radius of a circle is 9 feet; find the length of an arc which contains 24°.

Ans. 333 ft.

9. The radius of a circle is 3 feet; find the length of an arc which contains 36° 17'. Ans. 19 ft.

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links.

Find the area of a circle whose diameter is 476
Ans. 1a. 3 r. 4 p.

II. Find the diameter of a circle whose area is 386. o. 10 square feet. Ans. 22 ft. 2 in.

12.

Find the diameter of a circle whose area is
Ans. 27104 yards.

II a. 3 r. 287 P.

13.

Find the circumference of a circle whose diameter
Ans. 39 ft.

is 12 ft. 6 in.

14. Find the area of a circular ring whose inner and outer diameters are 13 ft. 8 in. and 7 ft. 6 in.

Ans. 102.6.8 feet.

15. The radius of a circle is 12; find the area of a sector which contains 15o 20'. Ans. 19.274.

16. The radius of a circle is 9 feet; find the area of a sector which contains 35°. Ans. 2423 feet.

17. The radius of a circle is 37 ft. 4 in.; find the area of a sector which is of a quadrant. Ans. 136 feet.

18. Find the area of a circular ring whose inner diameter is 6 chains 25 links, and outer diameter 10 chains 35 links. Ans. 5 a. Ir. 15 p.

19. The radius of a circle is 17 ft. 3 in.; find the area of a sector which contains 24° 25'. Ans. 63 425 feet.

20. The area of a circular sector is 343, and it contains an angle of 11° 15'; find the radius.

Ans. 183.

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Let ACB be a semicircle, of which AB is the diameter, and let CD be perpendicular to AB. Then AD is called the abscissa, and CD the ordinate of the point C; and by a property of the circle,

AD × DB = CD3, or CD= √(AD × DB).

Ex. The diameter of a semicircle is 40, which is divided
Calculate the ordinates drawn from the

into 8 equal parts.

first three points of division.

The distance between the ordinates is 5; and each pair

of abscissæ are

5, 35; 10, 30; 15, 25.

Hence the ordinates are

√ (5 × 35) = √(175) = 13°228, √(10 × 30)=√(300) = 17°320, √(15 × 25) = √(375) = 19′365.

EXAMPLES.

I. The diameter of a semicircle is 35, which is divided into 7 equal parts; find the ordinates at the first three divisions. Ans. 12 247, 15.811, 17°320.

2. The diameter of a semicircle is 146, and it is divided into two parts, 25 and 121, by a perpendicular ordinate. The segment 25 is divided into 5 equal parts. Calculate the ordinates at the points of division.

Ans. 265518, 36.8781, 44°3282, 50*1995.

THE ELLIPSE.

Let S and Hbe two fixed points, and let P be a point such that the sum of SP and HP is constant; the locus of Pis an ellipse; that is, if a piece of thread be attached to two pins fixed at S and H, and kept tight by a pencil at P, the point P will trace out a curve called the ellipse.

Let the ellipse cut the straight line SH produced in

A, A'; bisect AA' in C, and through C draw BB at right angles to AA', meeting the ellipse in B, B. Then AA' is the transverse diameter of the ellipse,

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On AA' describe a semicircle, and from any point D in AA' draw the ordinate DEF at right angles to AA' meeting the ellipse in E, and the semicircle in F Then DE is a fourth proportional to AC, BC, DF; that is, AC: BC: DF : DE.

Also, if def be any other ordinate;

AC BC area FDdf: area EDde.

XVIII.

To find the area of an ellipse.

Multiply the transverse by the conjugate diameter; then multiply by 11 and divide by 14.

Ex. I. Find the area of an ellipse whose transverse diameter is 18 ft. 1 in., and conjugate 12 ft. 5 in.

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Ex. 2.

The transverse and conjugate diameters of an ellipse are 12 and 8; find the ordinates which divide the transverse diameter into 6 equal parts.

The segments of the transverse diameter are 2 ; hence the abscissæ are

2, 10; 4, 8; 6, 6; 8, 4; 10, 2.

The middle ordinate will be equal to the semi-conjugate diameter, and the last two the same as the first two. The ordinates in the semicircle are

√ (2 × 10) = √ (20) = 4°4721, No↓ (4 × 8) = √ (32) = 5·6568. .. 6: 44°4721 : 2.981,

:: 56568 3771.

Ans. 2'981, 3771, 4, 3'771, 2·981.

EXAMPLES.

I. Find the area of an ellipse whose transverse and conjugate diameters are 16 ft. 4 in. and 13 ft. 5 in.

Ans. 172.2. 2 feet.

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