Answer:
Given the statement: Crater Lake in Oregon in shaped like a circle with a diameter of about 5.5 miles.
Area of circle is given by:
where
A represents the area of a circle
d represents the diameter of a circle.
then;
It is given that Surface of Crater lake is shaped like a circle.
Substitute the given values, we have;
Area of a circle =
= square miles
therefore, the area of a surface of a crater lake is, 23.74625 square miles.