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Problem
Regular octagon is inscribed in a circle of area Point lies inside the circle so that the region bounded by and the minor arc of the circle has area while the region bounded by and the minor arc of the circle has area There is a positive integer such that the area of the region bounded by and the minor arc of the circle is equal to Find
Solution
The actual size of the diagram doesn't matter. To make calculation easier, we discard the original area of the circle, , and assume the side length of the octagon is . Let denote the radius of the circle, be the center of the circle. Then . Now, we need to find the "D"shape, the small area enclosed by one side of the octagon and 1/8 of the circumference of the circle: Let be the height of , be the height of , be the height of . From the and condition we have which gives and . Now, let intersects at , intersects at , intersects at . Clearly, is an isosceles right triangle, with right angle at and the height with regard to which shall be . Now which gives Now, we have the area for and the area for , so we add them together: The answer should therefore be . The answer is .
Final answer
504