SOLUTION: You are given two different circles. The diameter of the first circle is the radius of the second circle. What is the ratio of the area of the larger circle to the area of the smal

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Question 543518: You are given two different circles. The diameter of the first circle is the radius of the second circle. What is the ratio of the area of the larger circle to the area of the smaller circle? Your answer should be in a form of a simplified fraction. Show or explain how you got your answer.
Answer by Alan3354(69443) About Me  (Show Source):
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The smaller circle's radius is 1/2 the larger.
Area is a function of the radius squared.
1/2 the radius --> (1/2)^2 = 1/4 the area
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