A chock is a block placed against a wheel or rounded object, to prevent it from moving. Jenny had to come up with a prototype for the design of a new wheel chock. Jenny drew a model of the wheel chock and the cross section is shown below.

- (a)
Show that
- (b)
Find the area of the shaded region ABC, given that BC = 20 cm
Answer ... cm^2
- (c)
Jenny claimed that the points O, B and C lie on the circumference of the circle. Do you agree? Explain with reasons.
Answer .
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13(b)
1. Find the radius $r$ using the result from part (a).
From part (a),
Given ,
2. Find the shaded area by subtracting the sector area from triangle $OCB$.
Since lies on , .
In right triangle ,
Hence
Area of shaded region
13(c)
1. Identify the angle formed by $OC$ and $CB$.
Since ,
2. Use the circle angle property to justify whether the points are concyclic.
An angle in a semicircle is a right angle. Conversely, if , then is the diameter of a circle passing through .
Therefore, , and lie on the circumference of a circle.
Yes. Since , . Hence lies on the circle with as diameter, so , and lie on the circumference of a circle.
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