AREA GRADE

OF A CIRCLE
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AREA OF A CIRCLE

Objective: Find the area of a circle.

REVIEW

Identify the parts of circle referred to.

1. A segment that passes through the center of a circle and has both endpoints on the
circle ___________.

2. A segment that has one endpoint on the circle and the other endpoint at the center
of the circle__________.

3. The length of the radius is always half of the _______.

STUDY AND LEARN

Read this problem and learn how to find the area of a circle.

Example 1:

What is the area of a circular mirror with a radius of 16 cm?

What do you ask for in the problem?

What is given?
How do we find the area of a circle?

The area of a circle is A = r2

A = r2 where  means pi whose value is about 3.14

The exponent 2 means that we are going to multiply the radius by itself.

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 Let us substitute the value of each symbol and perform the operation.

A = r2
= 3.14 x (16)2
= 3.14 x 256
= 803.84

The area of the circular mirror is 803.84 square centimeter or 803.84 cm2.

Let us try another one.

Example 2:

What is the area of a circle whose diameter is 15 meters?

Since the given is the diameter, divide 15 by 2 to get the radius.

So: A = 3.14 x (7.5)2

= 3.14 x 56.25
= 176.63 sq. m

TRY THESE

Test yourself whether you can now find the area of circle. Go back to the previous pages
of this module if you want to review how to find the area.

1. What is the area of a circle whose radius is 8 cm?

2. A revolving sprinkler sprays a lawn for a distance of 7 m. How many square meters
does the sprinkler spray in 1 revolution?
3. r = 12 m 4. r = 6 m 5. d = 17 cm
A = ____ A = ____ A = ____

WRAP UP

The area of a circle is the surface covered by a circular region. The formula in
finding the area of a circle is r2, where  (pi) is approximately 3.14 and r is the
radius of the circle.

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 ON YOUR OWN

Read and solve. Write your solutions and answers in your notebook.

1) Find the area of a circle with a radius of 5 meters.

5m

2) Find the area of a circle with a diameter of 22 meters.


22 m

3) What is the area of a circle whose diameter is 26 dm?

4) r = 4.5 m
A = ____

5) d = 23 cm
A = ____