Question

Rachel is baking a cake but does not know if she wants to bake a round or square cake. Which cake has a larger area, aaa round 8 inch cake or a square 9 inch cake. How much larger is it?

Answer 1

The square cake would have an area of 81 square inches while the round cake would have an area of 25.12 square inches. I calculated thes using the following respective formulas, a=bh (for the square) and a=3.14*d (for the round cake). The square cake is larger than the round cake by 55.88 square inches.

Answer 2

Area of round cake is 50.27 while the are of the square cake is 81
Square is larger by 30.73