THE RELATIONSHIP OF PASCALS TRIANGLE TO THE REGIONS FORMED BY CHORDS ON A CIRCLE

Imee Noli Sequerra Stephie Andielic Mabaga Jea Andre Juego Aiko Bajita Kennan Paul Tapang Aaron Jacob Valino

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.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The overall aim of the study is to collect reliable and valid information about the relationship of the famous Pascals Triangle to the regions formed by chords on a circle. Within this topic, we have a number of specific objectives: The main objective is to be able to find out the connection or the use of the Pascals Triangle in knowing the number of regions formed by chords on a circle. Drawing chords on the circle is the easiest way to know how many regions were formed, but what if the number of points is big enough? We would also want to know if there is or are formula/s in solving the number of regions formed by chords on a circle.

Chapter II: STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The purpose of this study is to know whether the number of regions and the numbers of Pascals Triangle are related. If we were to find out the relationship between them, were going to make formula so that we will be able to get the result without looking at the Pascals Triangle and it will be more convenient to all of us. Unfortunately, we have this conclusion that it is not applicable to all points and we are kind of having a hard time to know how the number of regions formed by chords on a circle and the numbers of Pascals Triangle are related. In response to this problem, the following questions are raised to help us investigate the topic: 1. What is the connection of Pascals Triangle in finding the regions formed by chords on a circle? 2. What is or are the formula/s in finding the regions formed by chord on a circle? 3. What could the Pascals Triangle help and contribute to our study?

Chapter III: FORMULATING CONJECTURES

A. First Conjecture: The sum of the numbers in a row of the Pascals Triangle is the number of regions formed by chords on the circle.
The number of digits in a row of the Pascals triangle represents the number of points on a circle. We have formulated a hypothesis that if you add the numbers on the Pascals Triangle horizontally, you will get the number of regions formed by chords on a circle.

No. of Pascals Points Triangle on Circle

1 1

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.

B.

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.

Number of digits in a column of Pascals Triangle

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

number of regions will result to 4.

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

applicable to any number of digits in a column of Pascals Triangle

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