Question

Given that the measurement is in centimeters, find the area of the circle to the nearest tenth. (Use 3.14 for π)

Answer 1

The area of a circle is equal to the radius squared times pie, basically:

${r}^{2} \times \pi$

The radius is 3, so we multiply 3 times 3 times pie to get the area.

You're gonna want to plug in the following into a calculator:

$3 \times 3 \times 3.14$

After getting 28.26 from such calculator, you need to round to the tenths place. In this number, the tenths place is the 2 next to the decimal on the right. Because the number after the 2 is a 6, that means we need to simplify the answer to (28.3). When you are rounding a number, you look at the number to the right, if it is 5 or bigger, add one and remove the rest, if it is less than 5, just get rid of the rest and leave it as it is.