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Your neighbor sally wants to plant flowers around the edge of her circular above ground pool. If the diameter of Sally’s pool is 18ft how many feet of flowers will sally need to plant to surround the pool?

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Answer:

56.5 ft

Explanation:

We need to find the circumference of the pool:

c = πd (c is the circumference, and d is the diameter)

c = π × 18 - this can be simplified

c = 18π = 56.548... ≈ 56.5 ft

Hope this helps!

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