Worked solution
Reuse a substitution result in a circle-area problem
(i) Using , show that . (ii) The circle and the line intersect at . Using part (i), find the exact area of the shaded region bounded by the circle, line and x-axis.
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CJC · Lecture · Example 20
(i) Change variable and limits
Put , so . The limits become and . On this interval , so and the integral is .
(i) Evaluate exactly
Use . Thus , as required.
(ii) Choose the lower circle branch
From obtain . The shaded boundary has , hence choose . Split the area at : the left piece is under this circle branch; the right piece is a triangle ending at the line intercept .
(ii) Add the curved piece and triangle
. The Teacher circles and labels the triangle contribution: . Adding gives square units, retaining the required exact answer.
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Keep radicals in the line gradient, circle branch and exact answer; native text extraction loses several square-root symbols. Do not integrate the upper semicircle or replace the required exact value by a calculator decimal.