Consider any sector of a circle of radius whose arc length is and whose area is .
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Problem
Consider any sector of a circle of radius r whose arc length is L and whose area is A.
(a) Prove that the ratio LA is equal to 2r, i.e. the ratio of the sector’s area to its arc length is always one-half of the radius, irrespective of the central angle.
(b) A sector has radius 21 cm and area 277.2 cm2. Using the result of part (i), find the length of its arc. (Take π=722.)
(c) Hence determine the central angle of this sector, correct to the nearest degree.