SOLUTION: For a holiday party, Marcus is making a nine-layer torte, which consists of nine 8-inch diamer cake layers with a cream topping on each layer. He knows that one receipe of cream wi

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: For a holiday party, Marcus is making a nine-layer torte, which consists of nine 8-inch diamer cake layers with a cream topping on each layer. He knows that one receipe of cream will cover 54 square inches of cake. How many batches of topping must he make to complete his torte(Use 3.14 as an approximate value)
Could you please start me off with how i would set this problem up? Please don't give me the answer. Thank you This question is from textbook

Answer by edjones(8007) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
pi*r^2=A, r=4
9A is the amount of cream he will need in inches^2.
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Ed
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