SOLUTION: 6) A square rock garden with sides of 130 feet is placed in the middle of a circular grass yard. If the circumference of the yard is 570 feet, then how much area is covered by gras
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Question 1120500: 6) A square rock garden with sides of 130 feet is placed in the middle of a circular grass yard. If the circumference of the yard is 570 feet, then how much area is covered by grass? For all calculations involving π, use
π≈3.14.
Hint: Be careful that you do not do any rounding on answers until the very end of a problem part, or you could create a rounding error.
a) Amount of area covered by grass, measured in square feet =
b) Amount of area covered by grass, measured in square yards = Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Knowing the circumference of the circle, you can calculate the radius by:
Leave the answer in terms of for the time being.
Knowing the radius you can calculate the Area
Find the area of the square by squaring the measure of a side. Subtract the area of the square from the area of the circle. There are 9 square feet in a square yard.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
