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Question 131535: what is the radius of a circle with a diameter of 8 inches
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
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what is the radius of a circle with a diameter of 8 inches.

Here is a circle

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Here is its radius, which is half way across the circle:

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Here is its diameter, which is all the way across the circle:

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So you can see that the radius is one-half of the diameter.
So if the diameter is 8 inches, the radius must be one-half of
8 inches, or 4 inches.

Easy, wasn't it?

Edwin