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A circle is sliced into 16 pieces and rearranged into a shape that looks like aparallelogram. The dashed line indicates the base of the shape. The base isapproximately equal to which part of the circle?

A circle is sliced into 16 pieces and rearranged into a shape that looks like aparallelogram-example-1
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All of the base of the slice corresponds to the circumference of the circle, but since half of it just accounts for the base of the parllelogram therefore, the base is approximately equal to only half of the circumference.

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