# Student sections circle and shades 3/8

**URL:** <https://cl.desmos.com/t/student-sections-circle-and-shades-3-8/8428>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [December 7, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/student-sections-circle-and-shades-3-8/8428 "2025-12-07T01:13:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Jennifer\_Knarr](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/jennifer_knarr/32/2492_2.png) [@Jennifer\_Knarr](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Jennifer_Knarr)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/student-sections-circle-and-shades-3-8/8428/1 "2025-12-07T01:13:06Z")

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Is it possible to recreate this problem using the Desmos Computation layer?

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/desmos/original/2X/2/213ff06bd95225e3197bfec8474416a84dde439e.png)

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**Author:** ![Guzman\_Tierno](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/guzman_tierno/32/6149_2.png) [@Guzman\_Tierno](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Guzman_Tierno)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/student-sections-circle-and-shades-3-8/8428/2 "2025-12-07T13:35:26Z")

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This is a Desmos graph that you can use to create the lesson with CL:  
[https://www.desmos.com/calculator/kvvqzvtqe0](https://www.desmos.com/calculator/kvvqzvtqe0)

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**Author:** ![Jennifer\_Knarr](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/jennifer_knarr/32/2492_2.png) [@Jennifer\_Knarr](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Jennifer_Knarr)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/student-sections-circle-and-shades-3-8/8428/3 "2025-12-07T19:51:15Z")

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This is great! Thank you. I am trying to figure out how to make the circle a bit bigger (radius=2). I can do that, but I am such a newbie with the code, I don’t know how to change the length of the partition lines.

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**Author:** ![Guzman\_Tierno](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/guzman_tierno/32/6149_2.png) [@Guzman\_Tierno](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Guzman_Tierno)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/student-sections-circle-and-shades-3-8/8428/4 "2025-12-07T19:59:44Z")

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🙂 I added the r\_radius variable

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**Author:** ![Jennifer\_Knarr](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/jennifer_knarr/32/2492_2.png) [@Jennifer\_Knarr](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Jennifer_Knarr)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/student-sections-circle-and-shades-3-8/8428/5 "2025-12-07T21:02:58Z")

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Thank you! That works.