Name : khalida hanim bt.

Che othman
I/C no. : 920118-03-5500
Form : 5 bestari
Teacher’s name : Mrs. Hjh. Wan marina bt. Wan

omar

Content
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Acknowledgement 3

Objectives 4

Introduction 5-6

Part 1 7 - 14

Part of circle 7

Definition of ‘Pi’ 8-9

History of ‘Pi’ 9 - 14

Part 2 15 - 20

Part 3 21 - 26

Conclusion 27

Reference 28

Acknowledgement
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First of all, I would like to say Alhamdulillah, for giving me

the strength and health to do this project work.

Not forgotten my parents for providing everything, such as

money, to buy anything that are related to this project work and
their advise, which is the most needed for this project. Internet,
books, computers, and etc. They also supported me and
encouraged me to complete this task so that I will not
procrastinate in doing it.

Then I would like to thank my teacher, Mrs. Hjh Wan Marina

Wan Omar for guiding me and my friends throughout this project.
We had some difficulties in doing this task, but she taught us
patiently until we knew what to do. She tried and tried to teach us
until we understand what we supposed to do with the project
work.

Last but not least, my friends who were doing this project
with me and sharing our ideas. They were helpful that when we
combined and discussed together, we had this task done.

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Objectives
The aims of carrying out this project work are;

i. to apply and adapt a variety of problem-solving

strategies to solve problems;

ii. to improve thinking skills;

iii. to promote effective mathematical communication;

iv. to develop mathematical knowledge through problem

solving

in a way that increases students’ interest and

confidence;

v. to use the language of mathematics to express

mathematical

ideas precisely;

vi. to provide learning environment that stimulates and

enhances

effective learning;

vii. to develop positive attitude towards mathematics.

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Introduction
A circle is a simple shape of Euclidean geometry consisting of those points in a

plane which are the same distance from a given point called the centre. The

common distance of the points of a circle from its center is called its radius. A

diameter is a line segment whose endpoints lie on the circle and which passes

through the centre of the circle. The length of a diameter is twice the length of the

radius. A

circle is never a polygon because it has no sides or vertices.

Circles are simple closed curves which divide the plane into two regions, an interior and an

exterior. In everyday use the term "circle" may be used interchangeably to refer to either the

boundary of the figure (known as the perimeter) or to the whole figure including its interior, but

in strict technical usage "circle" refers to the perimeter while the interior of the circle is called a

disk. The circumference of a circle is the perimeter of the circle (especially when referring to its

length).

A circle is a special ellipse in which the two foci are coincident. Circles are conic sections

attained when a right circular cone is intersected with a plane perpendicular to the axis of the

cone.

The circle has been known since before the beginning of recorded history. It is the basis for

the wheel, which, with related inventions such as gears, makes much of modern civilization

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possible. In mathematics, the study of the circle has helped inspire the development of geometry

and calculus.

Early science, particularly geometry and Astrology and astronomy, was connected to the divine

for most medieval scholars, and many believed that there was something intrinsically "divine" or

"perfect" that could be found in circles.

Some highlights in the history of the circle are:

• 1700 BC – The Rhind papyrus gives a method to find the area of a circular field. The

result corresponds to 256/81 as an approximate value of π.

• 300 BC – Book 3 of Euclid's Elements deals with the properties of circles.

• 1880 – Lindemann proves that π is transcendental, effectively settling the millennia-old

problem of squaring the circle.

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Part 1
There are a lot of things around us related to circles or parts of a circles. We need to play with circles in
order to complete some of the problems involving circles. In this project I will use the principles of circle
tomake our life easier.

Wheel of bicycle Clock

Old telephone Plate of food

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Paper cup

Before I continue the task, first, we do have to know what do pi(π) related to a circle.

Definition
In Euclidean plane geometry, π is defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter:

The ratio C/d is constant, regardless of a circle's size. For example, if a circle has twice the
diameter d of another circle it will also have twice the circumference C, preserving the ratio C/d.
Area of the circle = π × area of the shaded square
Alternatively π can be also defined as the ratio of a circle's area (A) to the area of a square whose
side is equal to the radius:

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These definitions depend on results of Euclidean geometry, such as the fact that all circles are
similar. This can be considered a problem when π occurs in areas of mathematics that otherwise
do not involve geometry. For this reason, mathematicians often prefer to define π without
reference to geometry, instead selecting one of its analytic properties as a definition. A common
choice is to define π as twice the smallest positive x for which cos(x) = 0. The formulas below
illustrate other (equivalent) definitions.

History
The history of π parallels the development of mathematics as a whole. Some authors divide
progress into three periods: the ancient period during which π was studied geometrically, the
classical era following the development of calculus in Europe around the 17th century, and the
age of digital computers.
Geometrical period
That the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle is the same for all circles, and that
it is slightly more than 3, was known to ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Indian and Greek
geometers. The earliest known approximations date from around 1900 BC; they are 25/8
(Babylonia) and 256/81 (Egypt), both within 1% of the true value. The Indian text Shatapatha
Brahmana gives π as 339/108 ≈ 3.139. The Hebrew Bible appears to suggest, in the Book of
Kings, that π = 3, which is notably worse than other estimates available at the time of writing
(600 BC). The interpretation of the passage is disputed, as some believe the ratio of 3:1 is of an
interior circumference to an exterior diameter of a thinly walled basin, which could indeed be an
accurate ratio, depending on the thickness of the walls (See: Biblical value of π).
Archimedes (287–212 BC) was the first to estimate π rigorously. He realized that its magnitude
can be bounded from below and above by inscribing circles in regular polygons and calculating
the outer and inner polygons' respective perimeters:

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By using the equivalent of 96-sided polygons, he proved that 223/71 < π < 22/7. Taking the
average of these values yields 3.1419.
In the following centuries further development took place in India and China. Around AD 265,
the Wei Kingdom mathematician Liu Hui provided a simple and rigorous iterative algorithm to
calculate π to any degree of accuracy. He himself carried through the calculation to a 3072-gon
and obtained an approximate value for π of 3.1416.

Later, Liu Hui invented a quick method of calculating π and obtained an approximate value of
3.1416 with only a 96-gon, by taking advantage of the fact that the difference in area of
successive polygons forms a geometric series with a factor of 4.
Around 480, the Chinese mathematician Zu Chongzhi demonstrated that π ≈ 355/113, and
showed that 3.1415926 < π < 3.1415927 using Liu Hui's algorithm applied to a 12288-gon. This
value was the most accurate approximation of π available for the next 900 years.
Classical period
Until the second millennium, π was known to fewer than 10 decimal digits. The next major
advance in π studies came with the development of calculus, and in particular the discovery of
infinite series which in principle permit calculating π to any desired accuracy by adding
sufficiently many terms. Around 1400, Madhava of Sangamagrama found the first known such
series:

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This is now known as the Madhava–Leibniz series or Gregory-Leibniz series since it was
rediscovered by James Gregory and Gottfried Leibniz in the 17th century. Unfortunately, the rate
of convergence is too slow to calculate many digits in practice; about 4,000 terms must be
summed to improve upon Archimedes' estimate. However, by transforming the series into

Madhava was able to calculate π as 3.14159265359, correct to 11 decimal places. The record was
beaten in 1424 by the Persian mathematician, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, who determined 16 decimals of
π.
The first major European contribution since Archimedes was made by the German
mathematician Ludolph van Ceulen (1540–1610), who used a geometric method to compute 35
decimals of π. He was so proud of the calculation, which required the greater part of his life, that
he had the digits engraved into his tombstone.
Around the same time, the methods of calculus and determination of infinite series and products
for geometrical quantities began to emerge in Europe. The first such representation was the
Viète's formula,

found by François Viète in 1593. Another famous result is Wallis' product,

by John Wallis in 1655. Isaac Newton himself derived a series for π and calculated 15 digits,
although he later confessed: "I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these
computations, having no other business at the time."
In 1706 John Machin was the first to compute 100 decimals of π, using the formula

with

Formulas of this type, now known as Machin-like formulas, were used to set several successive
records and remained the best known method for calculating π well into the age of computers. A
remarkable record was set by the calculating prodigy Zacharias Dase, who in 1844 employed a
Machin-like formula to calculate 200 decimals of π in his head at the behest of Gauss. The best
value at the end of the 19th century was due to William Shanks, who took 15 years to calculate π
with 707 digits, although due to a mistake only the first 527 were correct. (To avoid such errors,
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modern record calculations of any kind are often performed twice, with two different formulas. If
the results are the same, they are likely to be correct.)
Theoretical advances in the 18th century led to insights about π's nature that could not be
achieved through numerical calculation alone. Johann Heinrich Lambert proved the irrationality
of π in 1761, and Adrien-Marie Legendre also proved in 1794 π2 to be irrational. When Leonhard
Euler in 1735 solved the famous Basel problem – finding the exact value of

which is π2/6, he established a deep connection between π and the prime numbers. Both
Legendre and Leonhard Euler speculated that π might be transcendental, which was finally
proved in 1882 by Ferdinand von Lindemann.
William Jones' book A New Introduction to Mathematics from 1706 is said to be the first use of
the Greek letter π for this constant, but the notation became particularly popular after Leonhard
Euler adopted it in 1737. He wrote:
There are various other ways of finding the Lengths or Areas of particular Curve Lines, or
Planes, which may very much facilitate the Practice; as for instance, in the Circle, the Diameter
is to the Circumference as 1 to (16/5 − 4/239) − 1/3(16/53 − 4/2393) + ... = 3.14159... = π}}
See also: history of mathematical notation
Computation in the computer age
The advent of digital computers in the 20th century led to an increased rate of new π calculation
records. John von Neumann et. al. used ENIAC to compute 2037 digits of π in 1949, a
calculation that took 70 hours. [33][34] Additional thousands of decimal places were obtained in the
following decades, with the million-digit milestone passed in 1973. Progress was not only due to
faster hardware, but also new algorithms. One of the most significant developments was the
discovery of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) in the 1960s, which allows computers to perform
arithmetic on extremely large numbers quickly.
In the beginning of the 20th century, the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan found many
new formulas for π, some remarkable for their elegance and mathematical depth. One of his
formulas is the series,

and the related one found by the Chudnovsky brothers in 1987,

which deliver 14 digits per term. The Chudnovskys used this formula to set several π computing
records in the end of the 1980s, including the first calculation of over one billion (1,011,196,691)
decimals in 1989. It remains the formula of choice for π calculating software that runs on
personal computers, as opposed to the supercomputers used to set modern records.

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Whereas series typically increase the accuracy with a fixed amount for each added term, there
exist iterative algorithms that multiply the number of correct digits at each step, with the
downside that each step generally requires an expensive calculation. A breakthrough was made in
1975, when Richard Brent and Eugene Salamin independently discovered the Brent–Salamin
algorithm, which uses only arithmetic to double the number of correct digits at each step. The
algorithm consists of setting

and iterating

until an and bn are close enough. Then the estimate for π is given by

Using this scheme, 25 iterations suffice to reach 45 million correct decimals. A similar algorithm
that quadruples the accuracy in each step has been found by Jonathan and Peter Borwein. The
methods have been used by Yasumasa Kanada and team to set most of the π calculation records
since 1980, up to a calculation of 206,158,430,000 decimals of π in 1999. The current record is
1,241,100,000,000 decimals, set by Kanada and team in 2002. Although most of Kanada's
previous records were set using the Brent-Salamin algorithm, the 2002 calculation made use of
two Machin-like formulas that were slower but crucially reduced memory consumption. The
calculation was performed on a 64-node Hitachi supercomputer with 1 terabyte of main memory,
capable of carrying out 2 trillion operations per second.
An important recent development was the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP formula),
discovered by Simon Plouffe and named after the authors of the paper in which the formula was
first published, David H. Bailey, Peter Borwein, and Plouffe. The formula,

is remarkable because it allows extracting any individual hexadecimal or binary digit of π

without calculating all the preceding ones. Between 1998 and 2000, the distributed computing
project PiHex used a modification of the BBP formula due to Fabrice Bellard to compute the
quadrillionth (1,000,000,000,000,000:th) bit of π, which turned out to be 0.
In 2006, Simon Plouffe, using the integer relation algorithm PSLQ, found a series of beautiful
formulas. Let q = eπ, then

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and others of form,

where q = eπ, k is an odd number, and a, b, c are rational numbers. If k is of the form 4m + 3, then
the formula has the particularly simple form,

for some rational number p where the denominator is a highly factorable number, though no
rigorous proof has yet been given.

Part 2
(a) Diagram 1 shows a semicircle PQR of diameter 10. Semicircles PAB and BCR of diameter d1
and d2 repectively are inscribed in the semicircle PQR such that the sum of d1 and d2 is equal to
10 cm.

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Complete Table 1 by using various values of d1 and the corresponding values of d2. Hence,
determine the relationship between the lengths of arcs PQR, PAB and BCR.

Using formula: Arc of semicircle = ½πd

Length of arc Length of arc Length of arc

PQR in terms of π PAB in terms of π BCR in terms of π
d1 (cm) d2 (cm)
(cm) (cm) (cm)
1 9 5π 0.5 π 4.5 π
2 8 5π 1.0 π 4.0 π
3 7 5π 1.5 π 3.5 π
4 6 5π 2.0 π 3.0 π
5 5 5π 2.5 π 2.5 π
6 4 5π 3.0 π 2.0 π
7 3 5π 3.5 π 1.5 π
8 2 5π 4.0 π 1.0 π
9 1 5π 4.5 π 0.5 π

From the Table 1 we know that the length of arc PQR is not affected by the different in d1

and d2 in PAB and BCR respectively. The relation between the length of arcs PQR , PAB

and BCR is that the length of arc PQR is equal to the sum of the length of arcs PAB and

BCR, which is we can get the equation:

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SPQR = S + S PAB BCR

Let d1= 3, and d2=7 SPQR = S + S PAB BCR

5π = π(3) + π(7)
1 1
2 2

5π = π + π
3 7
2 2

5π = π
10
2

5π = 5 π

(b) Diagram 2 shows a semicircle PQR of diameter 10 cm. semicircles PAB, BCD and DER of
diameter d1, d2 and d3 respectively are inscribed in the semicircle PQRsuch that the sum of d1, d2
and d3 is equal to 10 cm.

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(i) Using various values of d1 and d2 and the corresponding values of d3, determine the
relation between the lengths of arcs PQR, PAB, BCD and DER. Tabulate your
findings.

Length of Length of Length of Length of

arc PQR arc PAB arc BCD arc DER

d1(cm) d2(cm) d3(cm) in in in in

terms of terms of terms of terms of

π π π π

(cm) (cm) (cm) (cm)

1 1 8 5π 0.5 π 0.5 π 4.0 π
1 2 7 5π 0.5 π 1.0 π 3.5 π
1 3 6 5π 0.5 π 1.5 π 3.0 π
1 4 5 5π 0.5 π 2.0 π 2.5 π
1 5 4 5π 0.5 π 2.5 π 2.0 π
1 6 3 5π 0.5 π 3.0 π 1.5 π
1 7 2 5π 0.5 π 3.5 π 1.0 π
1 8 1 5π 0.5 π 4.0 π 0.5 π
2 1 7 5π 1.0 π 0.5 π 3.5 π
2 2 6 5π 1.0 π 1.0 π 3.0 π
2 3 5 5π 1.0 π 1.5 π 2.5 π
2 4 4 5π 1.0 π 2.0 π 2.0 π
2 5 3 5π 1.0 π 2.5 π 1.5 π
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2 6 2 5 π 1.0 π 3.0 π 1.0 π

2 7 1 5 π 1.0 π 3.5 π 0.5 π
3 1 6 5 π 1.5 π 0.5 π 3.0 π
3 2 5 5 π 1.5 π 1.0 π 2.5 π
3 3 4 5 π 1.5 π 1.5 π 2.0 π
3 4 3 5 π 1.5 π 2.0 π 1.5 π
3 5 2 5 π 1.5 π 2.5 π 1.0 π
3 6 1 5 π 1.5 π 3.0 π 0.5 π
4 1 5 5 π 2.0 π 0.5 π 2.5 π
4 2 4 5 π 2.0 π 1.0 π 2.0 π
4 3 3 5 π 2.0 π 1.5 π 1.5 π
4 4 2 5 π 2.0 π 2.0 π 1.0
4 5 1 5 π 2.0 π 2.5 π 0.5 π
5 1 4 5 π 2.5 π 0.5 π 2.0 π
5 2 3 5 π 2.5 π 1.0 π 1.5 π
5 3 2 5 π 2.5 π 1.5 π 1.0 π
5 4 1 5 π 2.5 π 2.0 π 0.5 π
6 1 3 5 π 3.0 π 0.5 π 1.5 π
6 2 2 5 π 3.0 π 1.0 π 1.0 π
6 3 1 5 π 3.0 π 1.5 π 0.5 π
7 1 2 5 π 3.5 π 0.5 π 1.0 π
7 2 1 5 π 3.5 π 1.0 π 0.5 π
8 1 1 5 π 4.0 π 0.5 π 0.5 π

SPQR = SPAB + SBCD + SDER

Let d1 = 2, d2 = 5, d3 = 3 SPQR = SPAB + SBCD + SDER
5π = π + π + π
5 3
2 2

5π = 5π

(ii) Based on your findings in (a) and (b), make generalization about the length of the arc of
the outer semicircle and the lengths of arcs of the inner semicircles for n inner
semicircles where n = 2, 3, 4, …….

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Souter = S1 + S2 + S3 + S4 + S5
(c) For different values of diameters of the outer semicircle, show that the generalization stated in
b(ii) is still true.

The length of arc of the outer semicircle

= s (2πr) = ( )=
1 1 d πd
2π
2 2 2 2

The sum of the length of arc of the inner semicircles

Factorise
π
2

Sin = (d1 + d2 + ……….. dn)

π
2

Substitute

d1 + d2 + ……… + dn = d

We get,
Sin= (d) =
π πd
2 2

Where d is any positive real number,

We can see that,

Sin = Sout

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Examples

c) Assume the diameter of outer semicircle is 30cm and 4 semicircles are inscribed in the outer
semicircle such that the sum of d1(APQ), d2(QRS), d3(STU), d4(UVC) is equal to 30cm.

d1 d2 d3 d4 SABC SAPQ SQRS SSTU SUVC

10 8 6 6 15 π 5π 4π 3π 3π
12 3 5 10 15 π 6π 3/2 π 5/2 π 5π
14 8 4 4 15 π 7π 4π 2π 2π
15 5 3 7 15 π 15/2 π 5/2 π 3/2 π 7/2 π

Let d1=10, d2=8, d3=6, d4=6, SABC= 5π + 4π+ 3π+ 3π

15 π = 5π+ 4π+ 3π+ 3π

The diameter of the outer semicircle, d = d1 + d2 + …… + dn

10cm = 1cm + 1cm + 8cm

The length of arc of the outer semicircle, d1 + d2 + d3

0.5π + 0.5π + 4.0π = 5π

The sum of the length of arcs of the inner semicircles

Factorise π/2

(1cm + 1cm + 8cm) = 5π

In conclusion, we can conclude that,

The length of the arc of the outer semicircle is equal to the sum of the length of
arcs of any number of the inner semicircles. This is true for any value of the diameter of the
semicircle.

In other words, for different values of diameters of the outer semicircle, the generalisations stated
in b (ii) is still true.

Part 3
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The Mathematics Society is given a task to design a garden to beautify their school by using the design
as shown in Diagram 3. The shaded region will be planted with flowers and the two inner semicircles are
fish pond.

(a) The area of the flower pot is y m2 and the diameter of one of the fish ponds is x m. Express y in
terms of π and x.

Area of ADC
=
1  10 
2
π  
2 2
=
25
π
2

Area of AEB
=
1  x2 
π 
2  2 
=
1  x2 
π 
2  4 
=
x2
π
8

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Area of BFC
=
2
1 x 
π 
2  2 
=
1  x2 
π 
2  4 
=
x2
π
8

Area of the shaded region

=Area of ADC – (Area of AEB + Area of BFC)
=
25  x2  25 5x x 2 
π −  π +  π − π + π 
2 8  2 2 8 
=
25  x2 25 5x x2 
x −  π + π − π + π 
2  8 2 2 8 
=
25 x2 25 5x x2
π− π− π+ π− π
2 8 2 2 8
=
x2 5x
− π+ π
4 2

(b) Find the diameters of two fish ponds if the area of the flower pot is 16.5m2. ( Use )
22
π=
7
Given y = 16.5

x2 5x
16.5 = − π+ π
4 2

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x2 5x
16.5 = − π + π
4 2

x 2  22  5 x  22 
16.5 = −  +  
4  7  2  7 

To eliminate the π, divide all the terms by π.

16.5 x 2 5x
=− +
22 4 2
7

5x x 2
5.25 = −
2 4

21 = 10x − x 2

x 2 − 10x + 21 = 0

Factorise the equation to get the value of x.

( x – 7 )( x – 3) = 0
x = 7 or x = 3

x = 7 cm or x = 3 cm
∴

(c) Reduce the non-linear equation obtained in (a) to simple linear form hence, plot a staright line
graph. Using the straight line graph, determine the area of the flower pot if the diameter of one of
the fish ponds is 4.5 m.

Linear Law

x2 5x
y= π+ π
4 2

Change it to linear form of Y = mX + C

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y x 5π
= −π +
x 4 2
Y=
y
x
X=x
m=
n
−
4
C=
5π
2

Thus, a graph of against x was plotted and the line of best fit was drawn.
y
x

X=x 1.0cm 1.5 cm 2.0 cm 2.5 cm 3.0 cm 3.5 cm 4.0 cm 4.5 cm 5.0 cm

Y= 7.069 6.676 6.283 5.890 5.498 5.105 4.712 4.320 3.927

y
x

Find the value of when x = 4.5 m.

y
x

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Then multiply you get with 4.5 to get the actual value of y.
y
x

8.0
Y/x

7.0

6.0

5.0

4.0

3.0

2.0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
X

From the graph above, when the diameter of one of the fish pond is 4.5 m, the value of is 4.35.
Therefore, the area of the flower plot when the diameter of one of the fish pond is 4.5 m is

4.35 m ( 4.5 m) = 19.575 m2

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(d) The cost of constructing the fish ponds is higher than that of the flower pot. Use two methods to
determine the area of the flower pot such that the cost of constructing the garden is minimum.

Method 1: Differentiation

x2 5x
y=− π+ π
4 2

dy x 5
= −π + π
dx 2 2
y has maximum value
d2y π
2
=−
dx 2

At maximum point,
d2y
=0
dx 2

x 5
−π + π =0
2 2

x 5
π = π
2 2

x = 5cm

maximum value of y =
5 2 5(5)
− + π
4π 2
= 6.25 π m2

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Method 2 : Completing The Square

x2 5x
y=− π+ π
4 2

π 2
=−
4
( x − 10x )

π 2
=−
4
( x − 10x + 25 − 25)

=−
π
4
[
( x − 5) 2 − 25]

π
=− ( x − 5) 2 + 25 π
4 4

y is a shape graph as
 π
a=−
4
Hence, it has a maximum value.
When x = 5m, maximum value of the graph = 6.25π m2

(e) The principal suggested an additional of 12 semicircular flower beds to design submitted by the
Mathematics Society as shown in Diagram 4. The sum of the diameters of the semicircular flower
beds is 10 cm.

The diameter of the smallest flower bed is 30 cm and the diameter of the flower beds are
increased by a constant value successively. Determine the diameter of the remaining flower beds.
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S12 =
n
 [ 2a + ( n − 1) d ]
2

 12 
10 =  [ 2( 0.3) + (12 − 1) d ]
2
=
6( 0.6 + 11d )
= 3.6 + 66d
66d = 6.4
d=
16
165

Since the first flower bed is 0.3m,

Hence the diameters of remaining 11 flower beds expressed in arithmetic
progression are:

131 163 195 227 259 291 323 355 387 419 451
m, m, m, m, m, m, m, m, m, m, m
330 330 330 330 330 330 330 330 330 330 330

Conclusion
Part 1
Not all objects surrounding us are related to circles. If all the
objects are circle, there
would be no balance and stability. In our daily life, we could
related circles in objects. For example: a fan, a ball or a wheel. In

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Pi(π), we accept 3.142 or as the best value of pi. The

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circumference of the circle is proportional as pi(π) x diameter. If
the circle has twice the diameter, d of another circle, thus the
circumference, C will also have twice of its value, where
preserving the ratio =Cid

Part 2
The relation between the length of arcs PQR, PAB and BCR where
the semicircles PQR is the outer semicircle while inner semicircle
PAB and BCR is Length of arc=PQR = Length of PAB + Length of
arc BCR. The length of arc for each semicircles can be obtained as
in length of arc = (2πr). As in conclusion, outer semicircle is
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2
also equal to the inner semicircles where Sin= Sout .

Part 3
In semicircle ABC(the shaded region), and the two semicircles
which is AEB and BFC, the area of the shaded region semicircle
ADC is written as in Area of shaded region ADC =Area of ADC –
(Area of AEB + Area of BFC). When we plot a straight link graph
based on linear law, we may still obtained a linear graph because
Sin= Sout where the diameter has a constant value for a
semicircle.

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Reference
i. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
ii. http://www.one-school.net/
iii. Additional Mathematics Text Book Form 4 & 5

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