The Dog, Pole and Barn Problem

Here is my solution to your problem.
It's early in the morning, so I might have made a typo or misspelled a formula somewhere, but I don't think so. First, please take a look at my redrawn representation of the problem: Your description as it was posted on the forum: A dog is tied to a stake in the middle of a yard with a rope, the rope is 50 feet in length. there is a barn 10 feet away from the stake in a way that the barn is directly in line with the stake. the barn is 30 feet wide, by 50 feet long. how much room does that dog have to roam? a picture is given to help with the solution.
I used Geogebra (www.geogebra.org) to draw it in a form that I find more familiar: The red rectangle is the barn. The pole is placed at Origo. The black circle is the limit of the dogs roaming space if we barn would not be there.
Abstract: I've split up the area in 4 parts, and summed the 4 parts up to get the total roaming area. -Obviously, the dog has no restrictions in quadrants 2, 3 and 4. -The dog may not move right of the barn as the rope is not long enough. To see this, observere that the distance from the pole to the lower right corner of the barn is not shorter than 50 feet. I've split up the area between the barn, the x- axis, the y-axis and the circle in a pink semicircle and a green triangle. -The far sde of the barn from the pole (the upper side on your image and mine) can be solved by observing that the dog needs at least 30 feet of rope to get to point D. From point D he only has 20 feet of rope left. His roaming space on this side of the barn is therefore limited to a semicircle with a radius of 20 feet. Notation: As all measurements are in feet, all areas will implicitly become square feet. This enables me to remove all units from the calculus. Precision: I am not going into a lengthy discussion on precicion. However, there is a limit on the amount of digits the final answer can have: The measurements provided are assumed to have a precicion of 1 foot. The measurement prviding the largest inaccuracy is 10 feet. Here we have an precicion of 10%. However, this only affects two small addends in the final sum. The largest part of the area is limitied to a precicion of 2%. We should limit our end result to no more than three significant digits.
Solution: Quadrants 2, 3, and 4:
This is a semicircle that has the area of The following formula applies:
3 of the circle with the same radius. 4 3 3 3 7500 2 2 A1= r = 50 = 2500= =1875 4 4 4 4
Now, let's take a look at quadrant 1. I will calculate the three areas from bottom to top.
For the pink semicircle, I see two obviously decent approaches: I can either use a standard integral approach, or I can treat this as a semicircle like I did for quadrants 2, 3 and 4. I chose the latter. I will need the size of HOI . First, I will show that HOI and EIO are uqual. Then I will calculate EIO by using its sine value. Observe that HOI IOE is the angle between the x-axis and the y-axis. This angle is 90o. IOE EIO IEO=180 o IOE EIO=180o IEO Observe also that IOE EIO=180o90o IOEEIO=90 o We have two sums og angles both summing up to 90o. Hence, the sums are equal: HOI IOE= IOEEIO Standard equation rules gives that we can remove equal addends from both sides of the equation. We see that IOE is such an addend. Removing IOE from both sides of the equation gives
HOI = EIO , which is what I was aiming for in step 1. The next step in the solution is to find the sine value of EIO . We know that the hypotenuse has length r =50 , and the length of the opposite side of EIO is 10. The sine value is thus: 10 sin EIO = =0.2 which gives IOE=asinsin EIO =asin 0.2=11.54o 50 Now observe that the size of the semicirlce is, by the same logic as in quadrants 2, 3 and 4, 11.54o 2 2 A2 =(fraction of the circle)(area of the circle)= r =0.0350 =0.032500=80.12 o 360 The next area is the green triangle. The green triangle has a known hypotenuse, a known side, and two known angles. There are several decent ways to approach this. One is to use the area formula from trigonmetry stating that A=sin angleone connecting sidethe other connecting side . However, such a triple is not immediately observable. We can either route the problem through calculating the third side, the third angle, or by replacing sine with coisine of the corresponding angle. The third angle is the obvious choice for the faint hearted. Observe from above: IOE EIO IEO=180 o o IOE EIO=180 IEO IOE EIO=180o90o IOEEIO=90 o We now know EIO=11.54 o which gives IOE 11.54o=90 o o o IOE =90 11.54 IOE=78.46o A3=sin angleone connecting sidethe other connecting side=sin 78.461050=490 The last part to calculate is the blue semicircle on the far side of the barn. This semicircle has a 1 radius of 20, and covers exactly of a circle with such a radius. 4
1 1 1 2 2 A4 = r = 20 = 400=100 4 4 4
Summing up all the areas, we get: Sum = A1A2 A3 A4=187580.12 490100 =2055.12 490=6943.07 The precicion discussion above yields that the answer must be approximated to 6940 square feet . Solution provided by Snublefot, the anonymous mathematician playing RunEscape

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Solution: Quadrants 2, 3, and 4:

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