In today’s entry, we will solve a long question from Oxford MAT 2021.
Give this problem a try as you read along!
Solution
We can connect each point to the centre of the circle to split the shape into 12 isosceles triangles, each with angle 30° at the centre.
The area of each triangle is
There are 12 triangles as shown below.
The total area i
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