To calculate the area of the doughnut, we need to calculate the area of the larger circle and substract the area of the smaller circle.
The area of a circle can be calculated using its radius:
The diameter of the larger circle is 6cm which meand that its radius is half as large, so the radius is 3 cm and the area of the larger circle is:
Area of 9π cm².
The smaller one have a diameter of 2 cm, so its radius is half as large, radius of 1 cm.
So, the area of the smaller circle is:
Area of π cm².
The total shaded area is, then, the area of the larger minus the area of the smaller.
So, the shaded area is: