Find the area of one segment formed by a square with sides of 6" inscribed in a circle.
(Hint: use the ratio of 1:1: to find the radius of the circle.)

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now, bear in mind that, we could simply get the area of the whole circle with that radius, and tease out a quarter, because the segment is just using up a quarter of the circle, because the angle made is 90°, and then subtract the triangle from that sector, and what's leftover is the segment.

[tex]\bf \stackrel{\textit{area of the circle}}{A=\pi r^2}\implies A=\pi (3\sqrt{2})^2\implies A=\pi 3^2\sqrt{2^2}\implies A=18\pi \\\\\\ \textit{now one-quart of that is }\cfrac{18\pi }{4}\implies \cfrac{9\pi }{2}\impliedby \textit{sector's area}[/tex]

[tex]\bf \stackrel{\textit{area of the triangle}}{A=\cfrac{1}{2}bh}\implies A=\cfrac{(3\sqrt{2})(3\sqrt{2})}{2}\implies A=\cfrac{3^2\sqrt{2^2}}{2}\\\\\\A=\cfrac{18}{2}\implies A=9\impliedby \textit{area of that triangle}\\\\ -------------------------------\\\\ \stackrel{sector's area}{\cfrac{9\pi }{2}}~~-~~\stackrel{\textit{area of the triangle}}{9}\implies \cfrac{9\pi -18}{2}\impliedby \textit{segment's area}[/tex]

or you can always just use the area of a segment, with the radius and angle given.

[tex]\bf \textit{area of a segment of a circle}\\\\ A=\cfrac{r^2}{2}\left[\cfrac{\theta \pi }{180}-sin(\theta ) \right] \\\\\\ \begin{cases} r=3\sqrt{2}\\ \theta =90 \end{cases}\implies A=\cfrac{(3\sqrt{2})^2}{2}\left[\cfrac{90 \pi }{180}-sin(90^o ) \right][/tex]
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