To solve this we are going to use the formula for the area of a circle:

where

is the area of the circle

is the diameter of the circle
We know from our problem that the area of our circle is 10 inches long, so

. Lets replace that value in our formula to find

:


We can conclude that the correct answer is: 78.54 square inches, or in centimeters: 506.7 square cm.