SOLUTION: A circular flower bed is surrounded by a ring of grass with an Area of 314 square yards. Find the width of the ring of grass.

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Question 165097: A circular flower bed is surrounded by a ring of grass with an Area of 314 square yards. Find the width of the ring of grass.
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Are you sure that you don't want find the "radius" (instead of the "width")? Or do you want to find the diameter?


Start with the area of a circle formula


Plug in and replace with (this is an approximation)


Divide both sides by 3.14


Divide


Rearrange the equation.


Take the square root of both sides (only the positive square root is considered).


So the radius of the circle is about 10 yards which means that the diameter is about 20 yards (which is twice the radius)
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