Geometry: how to get the radius of a circle with just a chord of the circle

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Answer: Able to find area with statement 1) The length of the segment AB is 10

Above are two statements asking whether I can solve for the shaded areas given the information they have provided.

For my answer I said that I can't get the answer with the two statements individually, but can get the answer if I were to look at both statements and use the information given from them. Am I able to get the radius without knowing the relationship to the chord to the center of the circle?

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The shaded area is the difference between the areas of the two semicircles.

Also, by Pythagoras, $(AB/2)^2 =R^2-r^2 $.

This gives what you want.