A rectangular piece of paper with length 31 and width 14 has two semicircles cut out of it, as shown below. Find the area of the paper that remains. Use the value 3.14 for pi , and do not round your answer.

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A rectangular piece of paper with length 31 and width 14 has two semicircles cut out of it, as shown below.  Find the area of the paper that remains. Use the value 3.14 for pi , and do not round your answer.

anonymous · Answer

How are the semicircles cut out? The question says "as shown below"

anonymous · Answer

the question's online and i just copied and pasted the question

anonymous · Answer

Well there are any number of ways of cutting two semicircles out of a piece of paper; the question cannot be solved without the attached figure (except perhaps in some complicated abstract sense, but that's not this question's intent)