40% of students on a field trip love the museum. If there are 20 students on the field trip, how many love the museum??

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Since there are 20 students on the field trip. Then 20 is the 100% total. Thus, to find how many people love the museum, we can simply multiply the total number of people by the percentage of interest, namely 40%

20*0.4 = 8
So, 8 people love the museum.

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Answer: 38.4845100065m²

when rounded to the nearest tenth: 38.5m²

when rounded to the nearest hundredth: 38.48m²

when rounded to the nearest thousandth: 38.485m²

Step-by-step explanation:

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since you're only given the circumference, we need to calculate the radius of the circle before we can find the area.

to find the radius of a circle, you can either divide the measure of the diameter by 2 OR use the formula $r=\frac{C}{2\pi}$ where r = radius and C = circumference.
because there is no given diameter measurement in your question, the best way to find the radius is to use the formula $r=\frac{C}{2\pi}$ .

first, plug the given values into the equation.

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$r=\frac{C}{2\pi}$ ⇒ $r=\frac{7\pi}{2\pi}$

the equation becomes $r=\frac{7\pi}{2\pi}$ , aka radius equals seven times pi divided by two times pi.

now divide $\frac{7\pi}{2\pi}$ .

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first, plug in $3.5$ for $r$ .