MHB Rose Petal - Circle - Area problem - Can someone check my work please?

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I'd love it if someone could verify whether or not I did this problem correctly.

A stained-glass window is a disc of radius 2 (graph r=2) with a rose inside (graph of r=2sin(2theta) ). The rose is red glass, and the rest is blue glass. Find the total area of the blue glass.

So I set 2=2sin(2theta) to find where they intersect and found that at theta = pi/4 there is an intersection, so I set my bounds to be from 0 to pi/4 to find an eighth section of the total area of the blue glass.

My integral looks like so
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Did I do this right?

Thanks a lot for taking the time to read
 

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Looks good to me, and you have the correct result. :D
 
Hello, Pindrought!

Your work is correct . . . Good job!I used a simpler approach.

The area of the circle is: \pi(2^2) \,=\,4\pi.
The area of the rose is: .8 \times \tfrac{1}{2}\int^{\frac{\pi}{4}}_0(2\sin2\theta)^2\,d\theta

And subtract the two areas.
 
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