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Hi, The area of a circle is 100 quare millimeters. The radius is 5.64 millimeters. what is the circumference?

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The area A of a circle is given by


A=\pi r^2

where Pi is 3.1416 and r is the radius. In our case, we get


100\operatorname{mm}=\pi r^2

and we need to find r. In this regard, if we move Pi to the left hand side we get


(100)/(\pi)=r^2

then, r is given by


r=\sqrt[]{(100)/(\pi)}

Now, the circunference C is given by


C=2\pi\text{ r}

then, by substituting our last result into this formula, we have


C=2\pi\sqrt[]{(100)/(\pi)}

since square root of 100 is 10, we get


C=2\pi\frac{10}{\sqrt[]{\pi}}

we can rewrite this result as


\begin{gathered} C=\frac{2\pi*10}{\sqrt[]{\pi}} \\ C=\frac{2\sqrt[]{\pi\text{ }}\sqrt[]{\pi}*10}{\sqrt[]{\pi}} \end{gathered}

and we can cancel out a square root of Pi. Then, we have


C=2\sqrt[]{\pi}*10

and the circunference is


C=20\text{ }\sqrt[]{\pi}\text{ milimeters}

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