anyone want to help? it might take a little explaining for me to understand the question..
The diameter of a basketball rim is 18 inches. A standard basketball has a circumference of 30 inches. About how much room is there between the ball and the rim in a shot in which the ball goes in exactly in the center of the rim? Show your work.

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anyone want to help? it might take a little explaining for me to understand the question..
The diameter of a basketball rim is 18 inches. A standard basketball has a circumference of 30 inches. About how much room is there between the ball and the rim in a shot in which the ball goes in exactly in the center of the rim? Show your work.

anonymous · Answer

any chance you can draw me up one of those pictures with the rim and then a ball in the middle so i can see it better?

campbell_st · Answer

do you know how to find the circumference...?

anonymous · Answer

c= 2 pie R

anonymous · Answer

but i need the diameter of the ball not the circumfrence right?

campbell_st · Answer

ok... thats good... so lefts find the diameter of the basketball 

$$30 = 2 \times \pi \times r$$

does that make sense

anonymous · Answer

9.55?

campbell_st · Answer

the diagram is 

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