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Tommy has a stack of 8 pancakes. Each pancake has a radius of 9

centimeters. What is the area of each pancake?

User Prathamesh
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Answer:

254.47
cm^2

Explanation:

First you have to know the formula for the area of a circle which is:


A=\pi r^2

In the word problem it gives us the radius of a pancake which is 9 cm, so we just need to plug it into r in our formula:


A=\pi r^2


A=\pi (9)^2


A ≈ 254.47
cm^2

User Vitaliy Kalinin
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