How to solve this particular task about centroids

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Can anyone help me with 29.I know how to find centroids when one function is given but in this one I don't think that knowing only the function of circle or rectangle will help us.I found that there is something called additive centroids but I don't know how that one works here.Can anyone fully explain this task and additive centroids please?

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As you can probably guess (by symmetry or intuition), the centroid of the rectangle is at $C_1 =(0,h/2)$. Now the centroid of semicircle is actually $\frac{4r}{3\pi}$ above the centre of the circle which in our case makes it

$$C_2 = (0,h+\frac{4a}{3\pi})$$

To calculate the centroid of the entire figure you simply use weighted averages

$$C = \frac{C_1\cdot 2ah + C_2\cdot\pi r^2}{2ah+\pi r^2}$$

You can take it from here, I believe.

Reference - http://datagenetics.com/blog/january52017/index.html