Find the area of the blue shaded region in this 14x7 rectangle, with two semicircles of radius 7 drawn.

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posted Apr 25, 2016 by Tapesh Kulkarni

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[616-147 (1.732)]÷6th units or 60.2326666667squnits

answer Jan 14, 2017 by Jamma Chakrapani

how did you get this expression?

commented Feb 8, 2017 by anonymous

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Area of the shaded region will be 2*(Area of the semicircle )-area of the rectangle
I.e., area of the circle - area of the rectangle
= 22*7*7/7 - 14*7
= 154- 98
= 56 square units.

answer Apr 29, 2016 by Sreenu569

No your answer is wrong as ....you can see that not whole are of the circle is shaded....there are some portions left

commented Jun 9, 2016 by anonymous

Yes this answer is wrong, seems to be very complex and mine is coming as approx 60 Sq Unit. Not sure if mine is correct.

commented Jun 9, 2016 by Salil Agrawal

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answer Sep 20, 2016 by Amit Pratap Singh

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