SOLUTION: From Textbook: The expression of "pie"r^2 gives the area of a circle with radius r. How many square meters of wheat were destroyed when an alien ship made a crop circle of diameter

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Question 177325: From Textbook: The expression of "pie"r^2 gives the area of a circle with radius r. How many square meters of wheat were destroyed when an alien ship made a crop circle of diameter 25 meters in the wheat field at the Southwind Ranch? Round to the nearest tenth. Find "pie" on your calculator.

Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First of all, you won't be able to find 'pie' on your calculator. You need to go to a bakery to find 'pie'. What you may find on your calculator is 'pi' which is the way that the Greeks pronounce , the 16th letter of their alphabet. The area of a circle is . You are given a radius of 25. So multiply 25 times 25 and then multiply by using your calculator. You will get an answer with lots of decimal places, but round off to only 1 decimal place (i.e., the nearest tenth)
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