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Question
a one mile race tack has two semicircular ends connected by straight lines. express the area enclosed by the track as a function of its semicircular radius, r, and determine its domain

Answer
To define the area of the track given r, we know that the sum of the two ends is πrē.  I will work with feet, so the total track length is 5,280 feet.  The area of the rectangle in the middle is 2rl where r is the radius and l is the length of a side.

The equation for l is 5,280 - 2πr.  The total area is then
πrē + 2r(5,280-2πr).

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