Question

Kelsey has a circular flowerbed that is 5 meters in diameter and has a circular sidewalk around it 1 meter wide. Find the area in square meters.

Answer 1

So, together they would have a diameter of 6 meters

Answer 2

area of a circle = (pi) r^2

Answer 3

If diameter = 6, do you know what radius equals?

Answer 4

O.k. so the radius is half the diameter therefore it's 3 meters?

Answer 5

Yes, that's right. So put that into the formula for area of a circle

Answer 6

don't know if it's right,but I got 28.27433..

Answer 7

It would be 9pi, so that should be right

Answer 8

how did you get 9 pi?