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A television tower broadcasts its signal at a range of 18.1 miles from the tower to its farthest point.
How many square miles are covered by the range of this tower?
Round your answer to the nearest hundredth if necessary.
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Notice that I edited your post to make it grammatically and semantically correct.
All they want is that you calculate the area of a circle of the given radius r = 18.1 miles.
Use the formula for the area of a circle
area = = = 1029.22 square miles (rounded as requested). ANSWER
It is a good problem - - - in that sense that it is a simplest of this kind and in its class.
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