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A round coin has a diameter of centimeters. What is the circumference of the coin?
A barbecue grill is a circle with a diameter of feet. What is the circumference of the grill?
6.908 ft
The top of a pie tin is a circle with a diameter of inches. What is the circumference of the top?
A circle has a circumference of inches. Find the diameter.
52 in.
A circle has a circumference of feet. Find the diameter.
A circle has a circumference of meters. Find the diameter.
5.5 m
A circle has a circumference of centimeters. Find the diameter.
In the following exercises, find the radius of the circle with given circumference.
A circle has a circumference of centimeters.
A circle has a circumference of inches.
Find the Area of Irregular Figures
In the following exercises, find the area of the irregular figure. Round your answers to the nearest hundredth.
In the following exercises, solve.
A city park covers one block plus parts of four more blocks, as shown. The block is a square with sides feet long, and the triangles are isosceles right triangles. Find the area of the park.
187,500 sq. ft
A gift box will be made from a rectangular piece of cardboard measuring inches by inches, with squares cut out of the corners of the sides, as shown. The sides of the squares are inches. Find the area of the cardboard after the corners are cut out.
Perry needs to put in a new lawn. His lot is a rectangle with a length of feet and a width of feet. The house is rectangular and measures feet by feet. His driveway is rectangular and measures feet by feet, as shown. Find the area of Perry’s lawn.
9400 sq. ft
Denise is planning to put a deck in her back yard. The deck will be a by rectangle with a semicircle of diameter feet, as shown below. Find the area of the deck.
Area of a Tabletop Yuki bought a drop-leaf kitchen table. The rectangular part of the table is a by rectangle with a semicircle at each end, as shown. ⓐ Find the area of the table with one leaf up. ⓑ Find the area of the table with both leaves up.
Painting Leora wants to paint the nursery in her house. The nursery is an by rectangle, and the ceiling is feet tall. There is a by door on one wall, a by closet door on another wall, and one by window on the third wall. The fourth wall has no doors or windows. If she will only paint the four walls, and not the ceiling or doors, how many square feet will she need to paint?
Describe two different ways to find the area of this figure, and then show your work to make sure both ways give the same area.
Answers will vary.
A circle has a diameter of feet. Find the area of the circle ⓐ using for ⓑ using for ⓒ Which calculation to do prefer? Why?
ⓐ After completing the exercises, use this checklist to evaluate your mastery of the objectives of this section.
ⓑ After looking at the checklist, do you think you are well prepared for the next section? Why or why not?
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