SOLUTION: the area of one circular plate is 1256.0 cm^2. The area of a rectangular table is 8.32m^2. What is the maximum number of plates that can fit on the table without stacking any of th

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Question 1016478: the area of one circular plate is 1256.0 cm^2. The area of a rectangular table is 8.32m^2. What is the maximum number of plates that can fit on the table without stacking any of the plates? use pi = 3.14
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the area of one circular plate is 1256.0 cm^2. The area of a rectangular table is 8.32m^2.
What is the maximum number of plates that can fit on the table without stacking any of the plates? use pi = 3.14
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Do you see, your formulation is incorrect.

Imagine very long and very narrow rectangle of the area 8.32 m^2.

So narrow what no one circular plate of the given area fits the table.

And what then?