Your Yin, My Yang (Posted on 2008-01-19)

Consider a cylinder having the two major halves of the Yin-yang symbol as the profile of two moulded pieces of differently coloured woods. Allow one of these pieces to be obliquely cut from A to B as in the illustration. What percentage by volume of the whole cylinder do each of these two parts represent? The lower part of the illustration attempts to portray a receding void on the left and having cylindrical dimensions against a similar protuberance on the right, and of the same scale.

Also consider the lower section of the graphic to be an 'abbreviated' cross-section of the top, but rotated through 90°. And, if it wasn't obvious, the small black and white circles are to be dismissed from your thoughts.

See The Solution	Submitted by brianjn
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	Subject	Author	Date
	re: Solution	brianjn	2008-01-25 03:16:05
	Solution	Leming	2008-01-24 14:59:30