Question

The diameter of a professional baseball mound is 18 feet. The radius of a little league baseball mound is 5 feet. What is the difference in the areas?

Answer 1

You subtract 18 feet from 5 feet and get 13 feet

Answer 2

Answer:

175.93 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

First, you divide 18 by 2 to get the radius which is 9. Then you do nine squared. Lastly, you do 64 times 3.14 to get 254.47 (rounded)

Now, you do 5 squared which is 25. Then you multiply 25 by 3.14 to get 78.54 (rounded).

Now you subtract

254.47 - 78.54 = 175.93

Note: I rounded these in the example, the decimal places still go on so the rounded answers may not subtract to the correct answers because all the decimal points weren't shown, but the answer is correct.