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Find the surface area of a basketball with a diameter of 24 cm. Answers are in terms of pi.
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Find the surface area of a basketball with a diameter of 24 cm. Answers are in terms of pi.

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if it has a diameter of 24, then its radius must be half that, or 12.


\textit{surface area of a sphere}\\\\ SA=4\pi r^2 ~~ \begin{cases} r=radius\\[-0.5em] \hrulefill\\ r=12 \end{cases}\implies SA=4\pi (12)^2\implies SA=576\pi

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