A cow is tied to the outside of a raised square platform of side 10m, with a rope of 25m. what is the area the cow can graze?

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This is similar to a number of such quesiton, but the overlapping areas are a bit tricky. Ive a attached a diagram which i think is correct (may not be) overlapping bits

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The answer should preferably be in a trigonometric form, and pi is to be left unsubstituted.

(edit: the rope is attached to a corner of the platform) (edit 2:I tried dividing the overlapping area into smaller triangles, but the answer is unsatisfactory [268.75pi - 14.25m^2]

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Here is a graphical representation evidencing the area where the cow can graze (for some of them that can be attained in two ways)

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This area is the sum of

  • the fraction $3/4$ of the area $\pi 15^2$ of the disk with center $D$ and radius $25$

  • plus twice the fraction $1/4$ of the area of the disk with center $A$ and radius $15$

  • minus twice the area $\mathcal{A}$ of "triangle" $CGF$ (made of two line segments and a circular arc) because of double counting.

  • minus (of course) the area of the square ($100$).

$\mathcal{A}$ is equal to the difference between the area of circular sector $AGF$ and the area of ordinary triangle $ACF$. For this, we need coordinates of

$$C=(0,5 \sqrt{2}), F=(0,5 \sqrt{7}), G=(-\tfrac52 \sqrt{2},-\tfrac{15}{2} \sqrt{2})$$

Up to you for the final round...