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a water sprinkler sends water out in in a circle .how large is the watered area if the the watering Patten is 23 ft

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I'm guessing you're saying that the sprinkler is shooting out 23 ft of water.

This would be the same as the radius of a circle, and we're trying to find the area. Use the formula.


\sf A=\pi r^2

Plug in what we know:


\sf A=\pi (23^2)


\sf A=529\pi ft^2

This is what they could be looking for, an exact value. If they want an approximation, we can input 3.14 for Pi:


\sf A\approx 529(3.14)


\boxed{\sf A\approx 1661.06~ft^2}
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