SOLUTION: Lizzy has a cake that is 10 inches in diameter. lizzy expects 12 people to share it so she can cut it into 12 equal slices. find the area of each slice of cake

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Question 1028230: Lizzy has a cake that is 10 inches in diameter. lizzy expects 12 people to share it so she can cut it into 12 equal slices. find the area of each slice of cake
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The area of a sector is found by
A+=+%28%28theta%29%2F360%29%2A%28pi%29r%5E2
Here we are interested in 1/12 of the cake, so we have
A+=+%281%2F12%29%28pi%2910%5E2+=+%28100%2F12%29%28pi%29+=+26.18 in^2