Calculate the radius and the area of the brick region?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-24T12:32:13

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The diameter of the shaded area is the same as the height of the rectangular area: 30cm

The relationship between the radius and diameter of a circle is:

$d = 2r$ or $r = d/2$

Substituting the diameter gives the radius as:

$r = (30"cm")/2 = 15"cm"$

The RADIUS of the shaded area is: 15cm

The formula for the area of a circle is:

$A_c = pir^2$

Substituting the radius from above and calculating the area gives:

$A_c = pi * (15"cm")^2$

$A_c = pi * 225"cm"^2$

$A_c = 225pi"cm"^2$

Or, using 3.14 to approximate $pi$ :

$A_c ~= 225 * 3.14"cm"^2$

$A_c ~= 706.5"cm"^2$

The AREA of the shaded area is approximately 706.5 square centimeters