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Trigonometry and Calculus: Area
The concept of area is important at all levels of mathematics. A knowledge
of calculus is helpful in solving many of the problems below, such as
Building a Sandbox.
Other problems, like
Another Problematic
Pizza, require trigonometry in the solution.
For background information elsewhere on our site, explore the
High School Trigonometry
and Calculus
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Another Problematic Pizza
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find the area of a triangular piece of pizza.
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Be My Valentine
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 4. Find the areas of two heart-shaped valentines.
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Building a Sandbox
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find the maximum area for a triangular-shaped sandbox.
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Cutting the Cookie
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Where should you cut a circular cookie so its area is in a ratio of 1:2 ?
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An Eggstra Special Problem
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Find the area of a cross-section of an egg given some dimensions of the cross-section.
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Ellipse Areas
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Use calculus to show that the area of an ellipse is pi*a*b.
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Environmentally Friendly
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. What dimensions for a given page will use the least amount of paper?
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George's Gutters
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Find the maximum volume of a gutter.
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The Growing Snowflake
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 4. Find the limit for the area of the Koch snowflake.
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A Holiday Card
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find the ratio of the red area to the green area as the number of squares approaches infinity.
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How Large Is The Yard?
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Given three sides and two included angles, find the area of my parents' quadrilateral-shaped backyard.
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Irregular Acreage
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Based on the given information, find the missing length of a lot in the shape of a quadrilateral.
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Job Interview at the Can-Can Company
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find the smallest amount of tin needed to make a can that can hold 12 cubic inches.
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Kite Construction
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Given some information about the dimensions of a kite, find its area.
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Let the Sunshine In
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Find the dimensions of a window designed to let in the maximum amount of sunshine.
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Managing a Mall
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Find how many square feet there are in a quadrilateral-shaped store.
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One Area - Many Solutions
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Find the area of a triangle given the coordinates of its vertices.
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The Oval Braided Rug
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Find the area of a shaded portion of an ellipse.
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A Parabola Proof
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Prove that the area of a parabola is 2/3 the product of its width and height.
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 4. Find the ratio of the area of the overlapping region to the area of non-overlapping regions of two circles.
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Pie Puzzler
- Paul Robinson
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Where should a pie wedge be cut to divide it into two pieces having the same area?
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A Problematic Pizza
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Find the area of a specific region of a circle based on given information.
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The Seal of Dalvek
- Steve Earth
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Discover the area of a circular segment based upon its circumference.
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The Square and the Line
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 1. Find the equation of the line that will split a unit square into two pieces that have equal areas.
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The Super-Ultra-Mega-Big Cup
- Alvirne High School Calculus Class
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. What is the minimum cost to make a cup based on given information?
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The Super Yard XT
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 1. Based on information about the area of a regular polygon-shaped play yard, find the length of one of the walls of the yard.
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The Triangle Inside an Angle
- Ramani Jv
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 5. Based on the given information, find the area of the smallest triangle contained within an angle.
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Triangles, Sines, and Areas
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Show that the area of any triangle is .5*b*c*sin(A).
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Your Interview Question Is...
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. If you want to minimize the surface area of a can with a fixed volume, what should be the ratio of the height to the radius?
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