Radians phi or no phi

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In searching for the arc length of a circle i stumbled upon this question and managed to do it, but I seem to be having a trouble in calculating this.

Using radians, the arc length is $l=r\theta$

And I answered $50=30\theta \Rightarrow \frac{5}{3}=\theta$ I am confused as to the radian not having any phi on it. What does this mean?

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In this case, you can do two things. You can say that the arc lenght has to contain $\pi$ because it's part of a circunference and then write it as: $$\frac{50}{\pi}\pi\approx15.92\pi$$ Or, you can say, as explained before: $$\theta=\frac{5}{3}\cdot\frac{1}{\pi}\cdot\pi\approx0.531\pi$$