SOLUTION: What is the area of the largest square you can fit inside a circle of radius 7 ? (Hint: draw a diagram, think about the diagonal of the square.)
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Question 1135600: What is the area of the largest square you can fit inside a circle of radius 7 ? (Hint: draw a diagram, think about the diagonal of the square.) Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! What is the area of the largest square you can fit inside a circle of radius 7 ? (Hint: draw a diagram, think about the diagonal of the square.)
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If you draw this, you can see the diameter is the hypotenuse of the square
Which is: 2 * 7 = 14
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Using hypot. find the side of the square (s)
s^2 + s^2 = 14^2
2s^2 = 196
s^2 = 196/2
s^2 = 98
The area is s^2, therefore
98 sq/units is the area of a square inscribed in a circle
