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Why can’t we just count the boxes to find the area of the circle?
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Why can’t we just count the boxes to find the area of the circle?

User Gokhan Celikkaya
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The area of a circle is almost always a decimal - it's hard to fit squares inside a round shape! We can't count the squares to find the area of a circle, we need to use a formula instead.
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