Halie is a perfectionist and wants each piece of her cake to be exactly the same area. If the diameter of her cake is 12 in and she wants to cut it into 8 pieces, what is the area of each piece of cake? Round to the nearest tenth.

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anonymous · Answer

i'll assume we're looking at the top of the cake, otherwise it'd be volume

find the total area of the cake first via the diameter and radius
pi(r)^2

then divide by eight, and round off