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How Do You Find the Radius of a Circle if You Know the Area?
The area of the following circle is 153.86 in2. Find the radius of the circle. Use 3.14 for π .
Summary
- Remember, to find the area of a circle, you need to multiply pi by the radius squared
- The area, 'A', of the circle is 153.86 inches squared
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π ' is pi, an irrational number with a value of approximately 3.14 - 'r' is the radius, which is what we are solving for here
- We plugged our information into the A=
π r2 formula - We get "r=7", which means the radius of the circle is 7 inches!

Notes
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- Remember, to find the area of a circle, you need to multiply pi by the radius squared
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A =
π r2
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Our formula: A =
π r2 - The area, 'A', of the circle is 153.86 inches squared
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'
π ' is pi, an irrational number with a value of approximately 3.14 - 'r' is the radius, which is what we are solving for here
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Our formula: A =
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Our formula: A =
π r2 - The area, 'A', of the circle is 153.86 inches squared
-
'
π ' is pi, an irrational number with a value of approximately 3.14 - 'r' is the radius, which is what we are solving for here
- Plugging in, we get:
- 153.86 = (3.14)r2
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Our formula: A =
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- Now our equation looks like this:
- 153.86 = (3.14)r2
- The goal is to isolate and solve for 'r', which is the radius
- In order to do this, use the order of operations in reverse
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So we divide both sides of the equation by '
π ' in order to isolate 'r' - Then take the square root of both sides to get 'r' equals 7 inches squared