amorphous wrote:
Each circle has center O. The radius of the smaller circle is 2 and the radius of the larger circle is 6. If a point is selected at random from the larger circular region, what is the probability that the point will lie in the shaded region?
A. 19
B. 16
C. 23
D. 56
E. 89
Total area of larger circle is 36*pi.
Area of smaller circle is 4*pi.
Now To get the area of shaded part ,we need to separate total area - smaller area = 32pi ( 36pi - 4pi).
Now to get the probability for the shaded part we need to take entire area of the maximum circle in the denominator.
Since p(a) = expected records / Total records.
i.e shaded / full circle => 32pi / 36pi => 8/9.
E.