SOLUTION: Your bedroom is in the shape of a square that is 12 feet long on each side. Will a circular rug with a circumference of 40.82 feet fit into your room? If not, by how many feet is

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Question 842686: Your bedroom is in the shape of a square that is 12 feet long on each side. Will a circular rug with a circumference of 40.82 feet fit into your room? If not, by how many feet is the rug too wide?
Answer by fcabanski(1391) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Circumference = 2pi*r = pi*d.


40.82 = pi*d


40.82/pi=d= approximately 12.993 feet.


The rug is about a foot too wide. It's .993 feet too wide.