SOLUTION: A basketball has a circumference of 25.12 cm. What is the area of the basketball?

Question 1132529: A basketball has a circumference of 25.12 cm. What is the area of the basketball?
Found 3 solutions by Alan3354, MathLover1, MathTherapy:
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A basketball has a circumference of 25.12 cm. What is the area of the basketball?
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C = 2pi*r
Solve for r.
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Surface area = 4pi*r^2

Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

A basketball has a circumference of .
a circumference is

the area of the basketball will be:

Answer by MathTherapy(10552)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A basketball has a circumference of 25.12 cm. What is the area of the basketball?

@MATHLOVER is WRONG.
She just keeps posting WRONG answers, time after time. Why doesn't she try to learn to do certain types of mathematics?
The area or rather, SURFACE area of a SPHERE (that's what a basketball is called) is: , which is quite different from the area of a CIRCLE .
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