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1.7.13 Arc length and area of a sector (A-level only)

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Question 7

A landscape architect is designing a fan-shaped flower bed which is a sector of a circle with radius rrr metres and central angle ϕ\phiϕ radians. The design requires the flower bed to have a total perimeter of 18 m18\text{ m}18 m and an area of 20 m220\text{ m}^220 m2.

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Show that 5ϕ2−21ϕ+18=05\phi^2 - 21\phi + 18 = 05ϕ2−21ϕ+18=0 is NOT correct for these dimensions, and instead determine the correct quadratic equation in terms of ϕ\phiϕ only, in the form aϕ2+bϕ+c=0a\phi^2 + b\phi + c = 0aϕ2+bϕ+c=0, where a,b,ca, b, ca,b,c are integers.

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Hence find the two possible pairs of values for rrr and ϕ\phiϕ.

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