SOLUTION: A circle is inscribed inside a square that has an area of 256 in squared. What is the area of the circle?Round to the nearest inch.
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Question 298809: A circle is inscribed inside a square that has an area of 256 in squared. What is the area of the circle?Round to the nearest inch. Answer by Stitch(470) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The area of a square = the length of one side squared or
Take the square root of both sides to find the length of the side
Note that all 4 sides are the same in a square. So the radius of the circle will be half of the length of the square.
R = 8in
The area of a circle:
Area of the circle:
Area of the circle:
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