Personal Comment: I love the idea behind this and how you solve it! Easier than I thought at first but still tricky
Grazing Enigma
What we know:
There is a cow.
The cow is tied to the corner of a building with a cord(or whatever they use to tie cows to buildings) that is 30 feet long. The building's dimensions are 15 feet by 20 feet. The cow begins to graze.
Enigma: What is the total grazing area of the cow? Hint: area of a circle = radius squared times pi. You can leave the answer in terms of pi if you want. (pi = 3.14159.....)
Solution: The cow can only graze in 3/4 of the area of a cirle with radius 30, and 1/4 a circle with radius 15 and another 1/4 circle with radius 10.
Therefore, total area = [(3/4)*(30^2)*(pi)] + [(1/4)*(15^2)*(pi)] + [(1/4)*(10^2)*(pi)]
Which simplifies to:
675(pi) + 56.25(pi) + 25(pi) = 756.25(pi)
or
2375.82944428....
See who got this right
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