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Chapter I: INTRODUCTION
A chord of a circle is a geometric line segment whose endpoints both lie on the circle and a diagonal is a line segment that joins two nonconsecutive vertices of a polygon or a polyhedron. These segments will be connected to the different points that lie on the circumference of a circle. The topic includes the help of the famous Pascals Triangle. It is a triangular array of binomial coefficients and is named after Blaise Pascal. For instance, six points were placed randomly on the circle; join all possible pair of points by using a chord. As a result, the circle is separated into thirty one regions. To be precise, no three chords should ever pass or intersect through a common point. For you to attain that, the points on the circle must be placed at random or in other words, the distance between the points must not be equal. This topic is quite a rich problem, and there are many ways to attack it, some sophisticated, and some are quite elementary.
Illustration
Region
Conclusion
There is only one digit on the first 1 row. If you have only one point on a circle you will not be able to form a chord so the region will remain one.
There are two digits on the second 2 2 2 row. The sum of those digits will result to two regions. There are three digits on the third 3 4 4 row. The sum of those digits will result to four regions. There are four digits on the fourth 4 8 8 row. The sum of those digits will result to eight regions. There are five digits on the fifth row. 5 16 16 The sum of those digits will result to sixteen regions. There are six points on the fifth row. The sum of those digits will result to 6 32 31 thirty-two regions. But six points can only form thirty-one regions. So this states that the hypothesis we formulated is applicable up to five points only.
Conclusion: Through our hypothesis, we can conclude that you can get the number of regions formed by chords on a circle by adding the digits on the Pascals Triangle horizontally, but is applicable up to six points only.
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Second Conjecture: A formula for solving the number of regions formed by chords on a circle.
Formulas lessen the burden of every student. With the help of the exponential functions, we were able to create a formula in solving the number of regions formed by chord on a circle. The formula is: No. of regions = where n is the number of
points. When you subtract 1 to the number of points, it will result to exponential functions.
Formula
Exponential Function
Number of Regions
Conclusion
If you substitute the number of digits in a column to the formula, which is 1, the number of regions will result to 1.
If you substitute the number of digits in a column to the formula, which is 2, the number of regions will result to 2.
If you substitute the number of digits in a column to the formula, which is 3, the
If you substitute the number of digits in a column to the formula, which is 4, the number of regions will result to 8.
16
If you substitute the number of digits in a column to the formula, which is 5, the number of regions will result to 16.
32
If you substitute the number of digits in a column to the formula, which is 6, the number of regions will result to 32. So we can conclude that the formula is
Conclusion: In this conjecture, we found out that Exponential function is much related to the Pascals Triangle. In our first conjecture, it tackles about the adding of the Pascals Triangle horizontally to find the regions. We noticed that the sum of each column of the Pascals Triangle has an equivalent to the Exponential Function.
20 = 1 21 = 2 22 = 4 23 = 8 24 = 16 25 = 32 26 = 64 27 = 128