SOLUTION: A school’s art teacher designs a circular flower bed inside a rectangular sandbox. The sandbox is 11 feet wide and 15 feet long.How many square feet will there be for sand after

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Question 1133822: A school’s art teacher designs a circular flower bed inside a rectangular sandbox. The sandbox is 11 feet wide and 15 feet long.How many square feet will there be for sand after the flower bed is installed? Use 3.14 for . Round the answer to the nearest square foot.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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Area of sanbox, 11%2A15%2Aft%5E2
Area of flower bed, pi%2Ar%5E2 ft%5E2

You still need to know r%3C=5%261%2F2ft%5E2.

Use that and finish.