What is the formula for finding the area of a sector in a circle?

[LocationX]

what is the formula to find a sector in a circle?

so I'm given the radius and the arc of angle 60 degrees. To find the area in that arc, the formula is something along the lines of:

A=\frac{r^2}{2} * arc so...
A=\frac{r^2}{2} * \frac{\pi}{3}

is this right?

 

[Diane_]

The area of a circle is pi r^2, yes? So if you have, say, 30 degrees of central angle, the area will be 30/360 of the area of the total circle. In that case, you'd take (30/360) * pi * r^2.

The sector is just a fraction of the circle, so use a fraction of the area formula.

 

[bomba923]

Well, if you're given the radius and the central angle, then the sector area is just:
~in degrees,

A = \frac{{\pi r^2 \theta}}{{360^\circ }}
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~but if \theta is in radians, then

A = \frac{{r^2 \theta }}{2}

 

[LocationX]

what if the arc was in radians? then would there be pi^2?

 

[LocationX]

oh okay bomba, that's what I thought. thanks all