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Question 571361: how do you find the are of a circle that has lines on it and has a square around it on a coordinate plane. =a(-2,3), B (6,3), c (6,-5), D (-2,-5)
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Question 571232: A park has just installed a circular fountain in 8 meters diameter. The park wants to pave a 1.5 meter wide path around the fountain. If paving costs 10 dollars per square meter, find the cost to the nearest dollar of the paved path around the fountain.
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Question 570866: area: 3.14 or 22/7
diameter is 29ft

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Question 570393: The circumference of a plate is 18.84 inches.
What is the diameter of the plate?

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Question 570373: The shaded sector of the circle above covers of the circle. If the radius of the circle is 20 cm, what is the approximate area of the shaded sector?

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Question 567951: please help :
the measure of a central angle of a sector is 36 degrees. the arc length of the sector is 4pi cm. what is the radius of the circle.

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Question 567929: Identify one (1) lesson on circles that you would deliver to your students and explain how you could integrate the Seed of Life in the delivery of the lesson.
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Question 567738: Please help me solve:
The arc length of a sector is 5pi cm. If the circle has a radius of 9cm, what is the measure of the central angle of the sector?

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Question 567726: The area of a 60 degree sector of a circle is 36pi cm^2. What is the diameter of the circle?
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Question 567726: The area of a 60 degree sector of a circle is 36pi cm^2. What is the diameter of the circle?
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Question 566196: A circle has a radius of 4 centimeters what is the circumference and area of the circle
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Question 565432: If a flagpole measures 19 1/16 inches around, what is the diameter of the flagpole?

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Question 564699: Explain (suggested length 1–2 paragraphs) how the functions and definitions in parts A1 and A2 are related by investigating a right triangle inscribed in a unit circle. Refer to the diagrams in parts A1 and A2 as necessary.
a. Explain how you remember the relationships among these trigonometric functions.
part a1 refers to the right triangle definitions in this completed chart
part a2 refers to the unit circle definitions


Function Right Triangle Definition Unit Circle Definition
Sine Opposite/hypotenuse Sin (ang+ 2 pi k)
Cosine Adjacent/hypotenuse Cos (ang+ 2 pi k)
Tangent Opposite/adjacent Sin/cos
Cosecant Hypotenuse/side opposite acute angle
Reciprocal of sine 1/sin
Secant Hypotenuse/short side adjacent to acute angle
Reciprocal of cosine 1/cos
Cotangent Side adjacent to acute angle/side opposite angle 1/tan or sin/cos

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Question 564250: what is the radius of a circle when the center is at (3,5) and it passes through the origin?
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Question 564130: Draw different pairs of circles. How many points does each pair have in common? What is the maximum number of common points?
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Question 563793: The larger circle circumscribes an equilateral triangle, which circumscribes a small circle. The area of the larger circle is 12pi. What is the triangle's perimeter. I not sure how to do this problem and how to work it out.
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Question 563559: How do you find the four vertex of a square of length 283 inscribed in a circle with a radius of 200??
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Question 563205: what is the area of a circle in terms of pie, and they give you 3/4 in.

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Question 563205: what is the area of a circle in terms of pie, and they give you 3/4 in.

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Question 560986: If the Circumference equals 5(3.14) cm, find the diameter
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Question 560480: What is the measure of the smaller angle formed by the hour and minute hands at 1:28? Please explain.
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Question 560343: Please help me solve this :
A semi Circle has a diameter of 20.9cm
Work out the perimeter of the semi circle
Give your answer to an appropriate degree of accuracy.
Now i know you have to do pi * diameter,
SO - 3.142 *20.9 = 65.67

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Question 560036: if the radius is 15 and pi is 6 what is the central angle?
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Question 559534: I am asked to: Find the equation of each circle. Express my answer in general form.
i am given:
Center (5,-3) and radius of 2root2
i know i am suppose to use
(x-h)^+(y-k)^=r^ ... but having trouble completing the square

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Question 558817: If the endpoints of a circle's diameter are (6, 2) and (0, –6), what is the area of the circle?
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Question 558412: I have a question for my homework that I never learned, and I was wondering if it could be explained to me.
If the area of a circle is 25 meters, what is its radius in meters?

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Question 558049: A diameter of a circle has endpoints at (4, 6) and the origin. Which point is also on the circle?
A. (–1, 2) B. (6, 3) C. (5, 0) D. (–1, 1) E. NOTA
Please explain.

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Question 557803: find the area of the largest circle which can be cut from a square with an edge of 8cm.what is the area of the materials wasted?
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Question 557774: 1. two parallel lines touch the circle at points A and B respectively. if area of the circle is 25pie cm2. then AB is equal to?
2. Area of the greatest circle of the circles constructed on the side of a right triangle, taking these sides as diameters, if the two smalles sides are 1.5cm and 2cm.

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Question 557522: The manager of a sandwich shop is planning to make a circle graph showing the types of sandwiches sold in one day. The table below summarizes these data.

Sandwiches Sold in One Day
Roast beef
195
Turkey-and-cheese
125
Ham-and-cheese
75
Vegetable
50
Other
55

What central angle should the manager use for the section representing the ham-and-cheese sandwich?

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Question 557433: The length of a tangent from point A at distance 5 cms from the center of the circle is 4 cm. Find the radius of the circle.
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Question 555696: What is the circumference and area of a circle that has a radius of 4”?
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Question 555290: what is the circumfrence of a 12-inch pizza
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Question 555063: what is the equation of a circle with center (-6,4) passing through the points (9,4).?
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Question 555068: what is the center and radius of A Circle whose equation is x^2+8x+y^2-10y+32=0 ?

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Question 554607: An eighteen inch pizza arrived at a boys table. The crust was one inch wide all the way around the pizza. What percent of the pizza is crust?

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Question 554248: r=8inch put your answers in terms of pi
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Question 554248: r=8inch put your answers in terms of pi
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Question 554129: what is the center and radius of the equation below?
x^2+y^2-8x-2y+16=0

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Question 553984: This is a personal question, just wondering how i could solve it, however i will accept an answer.
If a beehive makes crops take less time to get to a harvesting stage, and a beehive covers a Circle with a radius of 13 Meters. How large of a square could i put inside of the Circle so that the most crop area was covered? I thought it would be 18 Meters x 18 meters, but it doesn't seem to work. Any Ideas?

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Question 553984: This is a personal question, just wondering how i could solve it, however i will accept an answer.
If a beehive makes crops take less time to get to a harvesting stage, and a beehive covers a Circle with a radius of 13 Meters. How large of a square could i put inside of the Circle so that the most crop area was covered? I thought it would be 18 Meters x 18 meters, but it doesn't seem to work. Any Ideas?

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Question 554037: Given:
Radius OR is perpendicular to chord AB at C
AC=2(x-3), BC=x+8
Find: AC, BC, and AB

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Question 553370: A circle and a semicircle have the same area. If the circle has radius 1, what is the radius of the semicircle?
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Question 552458: in a certain cake two straight cuts succeed in removing 4/15of the cake.waht is the central angle in degrees of the piece cut?
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Question 552487: If a chord 10 inches long is 5 inches from the center of a circle, find the radius of the circle.
x =

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