If the diameter of a circle is 20cm, what is the area?
1 Answer
Explanation:
First, observe the formula for calculating the area of a circle:
Where:
#"A"# is the area of the circle#pi# is the irrational number#3.14159 ...# #r^2# is the square of the radius of the circle.
Since the radius is half of the diameter:
Returning to our original equation: