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Triangle formed by centers:
sides: 7 , 8, 9
angles:73,58,48 (using laws)
Area: 26.8328 (Heron's)
Sector areas of circles:
3cm: pi3x3x73/360=5.7334
4cm:pi4x4x58/360=8.0983
5cm:pi5x5x48/360=10.4720
Area of sectors=24.30371
Area between circles is 2.52909
area ( triangle -sectors) formed

My answer is most like yours but my sector areas were different (for the 4cm and 5cm circles).

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