Wiper question

A 42 cm long windshield wiper covers a quadrant and it sweeps across the glass. If the outer 35 cm of the wiper is fitted with scrubber, then the area of the glass wiped clean by the wiper in one sweep will be

Dear Student,


it is given that the wiper covers a quadrant of the glass.Area of quadrant=14×πr2Now the length of wiper=42 cm but only the outer 35 cm contains scrubber the remaining 42-35= 7 cm will not be able to clean the galssHence the area of glass cleaned by wiper=Area of glass cleaned by full wiper -area of glass cleaned by 7 cm=14×π422-14×π72=14×227×422-14×227×72=22×6×424-22×74=55444-1544=53904=1347.5 cm2

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