[color=#000000]The following applet was designed to help you discover how to to calculate the [/color][color=#ff00ff][b]area of a sector[/b][/color][color=#000000]. [br][/color]

[color=#000000][b]Questions: [/b] [br][br]1) How would you answer the question that appears on the right side of the applet? [br][br]2) What is the formula for the area of the polygon name you gave as a response to this question?[br][br]3) Substitute appropriate values (seen in the [/color][color=#ff00ff][b]sector[/b][/color][color=#000000] on the right) into this formula to help derive[br] the formula for the area of a sector. What do you get?[br][br]4) What does [b][i]s[/i][/b] represent? *Hint: We learned this in the last section (7.6). Substitute this into the formula for [b][i]s[/i][/b].[br][br][/color]5) The formula you should have arrived at is what we use to find the area of a sector of a circle.