SOLUTION: A basketball has a circumference of 25.12 cm. What is the area of the basketball?

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Question 1132529: A basketball has a circumference of 25.12 cm. What is the area of the basketball?
Found 3 solutions by Alan3354, MathLover1, MathTherapy:
Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
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A basketball has a circumference of 25.12 cm. What is the area of the basketball?
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C = 2pi*r
Solve for r.
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Surface area = 4pi*r^2

Answer by MathLover1(20850) About Me  (Show Source):
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A basketball has a circumference of C=25.12cm.
a circumference is C=2r%2Api
2r%2Api=25.12cm
r=25.12cm%2F2pi
r=3.998cm

the area of the basketball will be: A=r%5E2%2Api
A=%283.998cm%29%5E2%2Api
A=15.984cm%5E2%2Api
A=50.22cm%5E2



Answer by MathTherapy(10552) About Me  (Show Source):
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A basketball has a circumference of 25.12 cm. What is the area of the basketball? 
@MATHLOVER is WRONG. 

She just keeps posting WRONG answers, time after time. Why doesn't she try to learn to do certain types of mathematics? 

The area or rather, SURFACE area of a SPHERE (that's what a basketball is called) is: 4pi+%2A+r%5E2, which is quite different from the area of a CIRCLE pi+%2A+r%5E2.