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Guys, can you help me to solve this problem? I don't know how to calculate the area of darkened. If you don't mind, just give me a step to solve this, I am grateful. FYI, the diameter of small circle is 2, the diameter of two congruent circle is 4, and the biggest one is 6.

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It's trivial to find the areas of the four circles, so your problem is just subtracting the areas of the six circular segments. Here's two:

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$AE=AB=AD=6$, and $BE=BD=4$. Using the Law of Cosines, we have $$BE^2=AE^2+AB^2-2\cdot AE\cdot AB\cdot\cos\angle EAB$$ from which we get $m\angle EAB\approx 0.6797$ or $m\angle EAD\approx 1.3594$. (All angle measures are in radians.) The area of the circular sector $AED$ is $\frac12\cdot AE^2\cdot m\angle EAD=24.4683$, and the area of $\triangle AED=\frac12\cdot AE^2\cdot\sin\angle EAD=17.5993$, which leads to $6.869$ as the area of the circular segment defined by circular arc $EBD$.

Repeat that for the rest of the segments, and you're all set.