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PROBLEM 184

A vase sitting on a shelf casts a shadow, as on the left.  The top and neck of the shadow form the boundary of a quarter circle of radius 1. The bottom forms the boundary of three-quarters of a circle of radius 1.  What is the area of the shadow? 

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