Circles - High School Math

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A circle with an area of 13_π_ in2 is centered at point C. What is the circumference of this circle?

Answer

The formula for the area of a circle is A = _πr_2.

We are given the area, and by substitution we know that 13_π_ = _πr_2.

We divide out the π and are left with 13 = _r_2.

We take the square root of r to find that r = √13.

We find the circumference of the circle with the formula C = 2_πr_.

We then plug in our values to find C = 2√13_π_.

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A 6 by 8 rectangle is inscribed in a circle. What is the circumference of the circle?

Answer

First you must draw the diagram. The diagonal of the rectangle is also the diameter of the circle. The diagonal is the hypotenuse of a multiple of 2 of a 3,4,5 triangle, and therefore is 10.
Circumference = π * diameter = 10_π_.

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Ashley has a square room in her apartment that measures 81 square feet. What is the circumference of the largest circular area rug that she can fit in the space?

Answer

In order to solve this question, first calculate the length of each side of the room.

The length of each side of the room is also equal to the length of the diameter of the largest circular rug that can fit in the room. Since , the circumference is simply

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A gardener wants to build a fence around their garden shown below. How many feet of fencing will they need, if the length of the rectangular side is 12 and the width is 8?

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Answer

The shape of the garden consists of a rectangle and two semi-circles. Since they are building a fence we need to find the perimeter. The perimeter of the length of the rectangle is 24. The perimeter or circumference of the circle can be found using the equation C=2π(r), where r= the radius of the circle. Since we have two semi-circles we can find the circumference of one whole circle with a radius of 4, which would be 8π.

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If a circle has an area of , what is the circumference of the circle?

Answer

The formula for the area of a circle is πr2. For this particular circle, the area is 81π, so 81π = πr2. Divide both sides by π and we are left with r2=81. Take the square root of both sides to find r=9. The formula for the circumference of the circle is 2πr = 2π(9) = 18π. The correct answer is 18π.

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A car tire has a radius of 18 inches. When the tire has made 200 revolutions, how far has the car gone in feet?

Answer

If the radius is 18 inches, the diameter is 3 feet. The circumference of the tire is therefore 3π by C=d(π). After 200 revolutions, the tire and car have gone 3π x 200 = 600π feet.

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A circle has the equation below. What is the circumference of the circle?

(x – 2)2 + (y + 3)2 = 9

Answer

The radius is 3. Yielding a circumference of .

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The diameter of a circle is defined by the two points (2,5) and (4,6). What is the circumference of this circle?

Answer

We first must calculate the distance between these two points. Recall that the distance formula is:√((x2 - x1)2 + (y2 - y1)2)

For us, it is therefore: √((4 - 2)2 + (6 - 5)2) = √((2)2 + (1)2) = √(4 + 1) = √5

If d = √5, the circumference of our circle is πd, or π√5.

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A circle has radius . What is the circumference, rounded to the nearest tenth?

Answer

Circumference is given by the equation . We can use this equation with the given radius, 4.2, to solve for the circumference.

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What is the circumference of a circle with a radius of 12?

What is the circumference of a circle with a radius of 12?

Answer

To find the circumference of a circle given the radius we must first know the equation for the circumference of a circle which is

We then plug in the number for the radius into the equation yielding

We multiply to find the value for the circumference is .

The answer is .

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Circle_with_radius

Find the circumference of a circle with a radius of .

Answer

In order to find the circumference, we will use the formula .

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This figure is a circle with a radius of 3 cm.Circle

What is the circumference of the circle (cm)?

Answer

In order to find the circumference of a circle (which is the perimeter or distance around the circle), you must double the radius and multiply by pi ().

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A circle has a diameter of 13 cm. What is the circle's circumference?

Answer

To find the circumference of a circle, multiply the circle's diameter by .

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What is the circumference of a circle with a radius of 4?

Answer

The equation for the circumference of a circle is , so by substituting the given radius into the equation, we get .

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Find the circumference of the following circle:

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Answer

The formula for the circumference of a circle is

,

where is the radius of the circle.

Plugging in our values, we get:

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Arcs

; ;

Find the degree measure of .

Answer

When two chords of a circle intersect, the measure of the angle they form is half the sum of the measures of the arcs they intercept. Therefore,

Since and form a linear pair, , and .

Substitute and into the first equation:

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A sector comprises 20% of a circle. What is the central angle of the sector?

Answer

Proporations can be used to solve for the central angle. Let equal the angle of the sector.

Cross mulitply:

Solve for :

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Circle

In the circle above, the length of arc BC is 100 degrees, and the segment AC is a diameter. What is the measure of angle ADB in degrees?

Answer

Since we know that segment AC is a diameter, this means that the length of the arc ABC must be 180 degrees. This means that the length of the arc AB must be 80 degrees.

Since angle ADB is an inscribed angle, its measure is equal to half of the measure of the angle of the arc that it intercepts. This means that the measure of the angle is half of 80 degrees, or 40 degrees.

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The length of an arc, , of a circle is and the radius, , of the circle is . What is the measure in degrees of the central angle, , formed by the arc ?

Answer

The circumference of the circle is .

The length of the arc S is .

A ratio can be established:

Solving for __yields 90o.

Note: This makes sense. Since the arc S was one-fourth the circumference of the circle, the central angle formed by arc S should be one-fourth the total degrees of a circle.

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In the figure above that includes Circle O, the measure of angle BAC is equal to 35 degrees, the measure of angle FBD is equal to 40 degrees, and the measure of arc AD is twice the measure of arc AB. Which of the following is the measure of angle CEF? The figure is not necessarily drawn to scale, and the red numbers are used to mark the angles, not represent angle measures.

Answer

The measure of angle CEF is going to be equal to half of the difference between the measures two arcs that it intercepts, namely arcs AD and CD.

Thus, we need to find the measure of arcs AD and CD. Let's look at the information given and determine how it can help us figure out the measures of arcs AD and CD.

Angle BAC is an inscribed angle, which means that its meausre is one-half of the measure of the arc that it incercepts, which is arc BC.

Thus, since angle BAC is 35 degrees, the measure of arc BC must be 70 degrees.

We can use a similar strategy to find the measure of arc CD, which is the arc intercepted by the inscribed angle FBD.

Because angle FBD has a measure of 40 degrees, the measure of arc CD must be 80 degrees.

We have the measures of arcs BC and CD. But we still need the measure of arc AD. We can use the last piece of information given, along with our knowledge about the sum of the arcs of a circle, to determine the measure of arc AD.

We are told that the measure of arc AD is twice the measure of arc AB. We also know that the sum of the measures of arcs AD, AB, CD, and BC must be 360 degrees, because there are 360 degrees in a full circle.

Because AD = 2AB, we can substitute 2AB for AD.

This means the measure of arc AB is 70 degrees, and the measure of arc AD is 2(70) = 140 degrees.

Now, we have all the information we need to find the measure of angle CEF, which is equal to half the difference between the measure of arcs AD and CD.

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