2021 CMC 12A Problems/Problem 2

The following problem is from both the 2021 CMC 12A #2 and 2021 CMC 10A #2, so both problems redirect to this page.

Problem

Two circles of equal radius $r$ have an overlap area of $7\pi$ and the total area covered by the circles is $25\pi$ . What is the value of $r$ ?

$\textbf{(A) } 2\sqrt{2}\qquad\textbf{(B) } 2\sqrt{3}\qquad\textbf{(C) } 4\qquad\textbf{(D) } 5\qquad\textbf{(E) } 4\sqrt{2}\qquad$

The area of one of the circles is $\frac{25\pi+7\pi}{2}=16\pi.$ The radius of a circle with area $16\pi$ is $\boxed{\textbf{(C) } 4}$ .

~Punxsutawny Phil

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