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- don't know how to say it lol

 
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Nice work, you have just proved the area of a circle. (Im not sure if you would have to prove that a semi-circle is half a full circle first though before saying it)

Either way, nicely done, also for part b, its just there so people dont get lost when they try to integrate it.

Can someone else post a question? Ive run out of ideas at the moment.
 

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What sort of question do you guys want?
 

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How many eight letter words can be formed from the letters of PARRAMATTA?
 

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Also Spiral, a Binomial proof one would be nice, (or anything to do with proofs) but anything will do, as long as its not Probability.
 

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I'll make a projectile motion I guess haha.
 

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Nice work, you have just proved the area of a circle. (Im not sure if you would have to prove that a semi-circle is half a full circle first though before saying it)

Either way, nicely done, also for part b, its just there so people dont get lost when they try to integrate it.

Can someone else post a question? Ive run out of ideas at the moment.
If you want a question, prove the area of a circle without the use of calculus. (this should be pretty easy though).

You can assume that the circumference is given by .
 

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Okay, I will post up my question tomorrow. It involves penguins + cannons lol
 

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If you want a question, prove the area of a circle without the use of calculus. (this should be pretty easy though).

You can assume that the circumference is given by .
I can imagine three possible proofs.

1. Unfolding infinitely large numbers of sectors with infinitely small angles, and arrange the 'jagged' shape until you get a rectangle, then find the area of the rectangle (area of circle equivalent) using base x height.

2. Consider an infinitely large number of infinitely thing concentric rings. Unfold them and stack them up to form an isosceles triangle, with the base being the circumference. The area of the circle is the area if the triangle, which can be computed using 1/2 base x height.

3. Construct upper and lower bound n-gons and find the area of them. Take the limit as n -> infinity and squeeze the area of the circle between them.
 
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Actually I need help (practice) on probability so something 3unity would be nice =)

I like the squeeze theorem proof of a circle's area, it's a nice idea of the limit as n goes to infinity.
 

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Also Spiral, a Binomial proof one would be nice, (or anything to do with proofs) but anything will do, as long as its not Probability.
Is that for the "How many eight letter words in PARRAMATTA" question?
 
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Isn't it ... May be completely wrong...
 

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I am pretty sure I am right, I too may be completely wrong, but I thought, because there are 4 'a's 2 'r's and 2 't's. Because we cant distinguish between the same letters, and there are 4! 2! and 2! ways of sorting each one, I thought I could divide the total number by it..

Thats how Ive always done it, and I dont think I have ever really used the Permutation thing before.

Also about proving the area of a circle without calculus. I came to this:

Let a regular polygon with n-sides be inscribed in a circle. We can split the polygon into an n number of triangles. If the radius of the circle is r, then the total area of the n-number of triangles is:



Where Theta is the angle subtended by each triangle. However because the total angle of revolution is 2pi





And if we take the limit of it as



Graphing this in geogebra, I am able to see an asymptote at pi, then when multiplied with r^2 you get the area of the circle pi r^2

However, I dont know how to evaluate the limit, if it is even possible for a 3U student. Is it possible to evaluate this limit with 3U knowledge?
 

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Also about proving the area of a circle without calculus. I came to this:

Let a regular polygon with n-sides be inscribed in a circle. We can split the polygon into an n number of triangles. If the radius of the circle is r, then the total area of the n-number of triangles is:



Where Theta is the angle subtended by each triangle. However because the total angle of revolution is 2pi





And if we take the limit of it as



Graphing this in geogebra, I am able to see an asymptote at pi, then when multiplied with r^2 you get the area of the circle pi r^2

However, I dont know how to evaluate the limit, if it is even possible for a 3U student. Is it possible to evaluate this limit with 3U knowledge?
Very nice!

There a couple of ways of evaluating the limits, one of which can be done using a clever substitution (well within the 3U course).



And Sy123, your answer for the permutation question is correct.
 

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Oh nice, Ive learnt a new technique for limits. (Of course substitution is something that can be used in almost anything, but it didn't really occur to me to use it for limits)

Thanks
 
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Just asking, if you have 10 letters ( P A R R A M A T T A ) , but you only choose 8, why is it still 10! ?
 

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Oh my apologies, I mis-read the question to be 'How many way can you arrange the letters of the word Parramatta', in which case Sy123's answer would have been correct.

This problem is a little tricky because you have to take cases. We can't just just use 10P8 because that includes permutation of the 8 letters, but how do we know which of the 8 are identical to each other? We can only place the whole thing over 4!2!2! is we KNOW for sure that all 10 letters are included but since we are only choosing 8, there is no guarantee that all the repeated letters are in it.

So we would have to take cases (quite tedious I can imagine).
 

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Oops, I misread the question aswell :/

I thought it was your standard old word arrangement questions so I just went right ahead and did it..
 

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