Question

Find the area of the smaller segment whose chord is 8" long in a circle with an 8" radius.

Answer 1

What do you mean by "smaller segment"?

Answer 2

Also, note how this triangle is equilateral.

Answer 3

I honestly have no idea what that means! thats exactly what the question said.

Answer 4

I think it means the area of the little arc portion. Note how you can inscribe a hexagon like this. By symmetry, the area of the little curved arc will be one sixth of the area of the circle NOT occupied by the hexagon.