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Warm-up:
Find the area of the shaded portion of the circle:

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Finding the area of a regular polvgon, is related to how you solved for the shaded portion
in the warm-up. There are two ways to solve these problems.
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Example:

Find the area of the polygon using the formula we just created:

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Example:

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