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Circular Track

A race track is in the shape of the region between two concentric circles, one larger than the other. Suppose that a chord of the larger circle that is tangent to the smaller circle has length 100 meters. What is the area of the track?

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Carl Lee
Wed Apr 21 08:26:07 EDT 1999