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If a cow is tethered with 3.5m long rope, what could be the maximum area it would graze?​

User Onato
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Answer:

Area=38.48 meters squared

Explanation:

3.5m is the radius of the grazing circle and then you take the radius and solve for the area of the circle to get the answer

User Ilker Cat
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Answer: 38.48 m

A tether is attached by one end to the cow, the other to a fixed point.

That means that the rope is the radius, the tether is the middle. The maximum area the cow can graze is the area of a circle.

Using the formula πr², we can find the are.

3.14 x 3.5²= 38.48 m total

User Gal Morad
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