Arc lengths and sectors
8 exam-style questions, grades 4 to 7. Worked solutions and the marks are on the last page.
- Question 1
A round pizza has a diameter of 30 cm. It is cut into 8 equal slices from the centre.
(a) Work out the area of one slice. Give your answer correct to 3 significant figures.
- Question 2
(a) A sector has radius 12 cm and angle Work out the length of its curved edge. Give your answer in terms of
- Question 3
A sector has radius 8 cm and angle .
(a) Find the exact area of the sector.
(b) Find the exact perimeter of the sector.
- Question 4
A sector has radius 9 cm and arc length cm.
(a) Find its angle.
(b) Find its area exactly.
- Question 5
The minute hand of a clock is 12 cm long.
(a) Find the exact distance moved by the tip of the minute hand in 20 minutes.
(b) Find the exact area swept by the minute hand in 20 minutes.
- Question 6
A sector has radius 9 cm and angle .
(a) Work out the perimeter of the sector. Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
- Question 7
(a) A sector has radius 9 cm and area cm². Work out the angle of the sector.
- Question 8
A sector of a circle has radius 6 cm. The area of the sector is .
(a) Work out the angle .
(b) Work out the perimeter of the sector. Give your answer in the form .
(c) The sector is folded so that meets , making a cone with no base. Work out the radius of the base of the cone.
Worked solutions and marks
Question 1
(a)
- Radius cm.
- Each slice is a sector with angle , an eighth of the circle.
- P1 The whole area with radius 15.
- P1 Dividing by 8 (or multiplying by ).
- A1 (awrt 88.4).
Question 2
(a)
- Arc length is the fraction angle/360 of the full circumference.
- Arc length = (150/360) 12 = cm.
- P1 Establishing or an equivalent valid method.
- A1 Correct answer:
Question 3
(a)
- Multiply full-circle area by the fraction of a full turn.
- Therefore .
- M1 Multiply full-circle area by the fraction of a full turn.
- A1 Correct answer:
(b)
- Calculate the arc and add both straight radii.
- Therefore .
- M1 Calculate the arc and add both straight radii.
- A1 Correct answer:
Question 4
(a) °
- Compare the arc with a full circumference and multiply by 360.
- Therefore °.
- M1 Compare the arc with a full circumference and multiply by 360.
- A1 Correct answer: °
(b)
- Use the same fraction of the full-circle area.
- Therefore .
- M1 Use the same fraction of the full-circle area.
- A1 Correct answer:
Question 5
(a)
- 20 minutes is one third of a full turn.
- Therefore .
- M1 20 minutes is one third of a full turn.
- A1 Correct answer:
(b)
- Take one third of the area of the circle.
- Therefore .
- M1 Take one third of the area of the circle.
- A1 Correct answer:
Question 6
(a) 40.0 cm
- Arc length.
- The perimeter also includes two radii.
- Correct to 1 decimal place: 40.0 cm.
- P1 The arc length, .
- P1 Adding both radii to their arc length.
- A1 40.0 cm (awrt 40.0).
Question 7
(a) °
- Sector area is (θ/360)
- = (θ/360)
- θ = 18 360 81 =
- P1 Establishing or an equivalent valid method.
- P1 Establishing or an equivalent valid method.
- A1 Correct answer: °
Question 8
(a)
- Divide by .
- P1 Setting up .
- A1 Correct answer: .
(b) cm
- Arc length.
- Add the two radii: .
- M1 Arc length .
- A1 Correct answer: .
(c) 2.5 cm
- The arc becomes the circumference of the cone's base.
- P1 Recognising that the arc length equals the base circumference.
- A1 Correct answer: 2.5 cm.