SOLUTION: Professor Pete Fly ate an entire pizza one night Each time he took a bite 9 square centimeters of pizza disappeared Professor Fly was so hungry that once he started eating he culd

Question 425088: Professor Pete Fly ate an entire pizza one night Each time he took a bite 9 square centimeters of pizza disappeared Professor Fly was so hungry that once he started eating he culd not stop. Twenty eight minutes later the pizza was finished. He took 20 seconds to lift the pizza to his mouth, take a bite, chew it and swallow it. He never paused until he was done. To the neares INCH, what was the diameter of the pizza he ate?
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Answer by scott8148(6628) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Pete consumed 9 cm^2 per bite and took a bite every 20 sec ___ he finished the pizza in 28 min

(9 cm^2 / bite)(3 bite / min)(28 min) = area of pizza consumed

pi * r^2 = area of circular pizza

plug in the area of the pizza , solve for r , multiply by 2 to find d
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