What Measurements Make a Circle?

Directions: What is one possible set of values for the area and circumference of the same circle?

Hint

What if you started with the circle’s radius?

Answer

There are an infinite number of answers.  One example would be an area of 100π square units and a circumference of 20π units for a circle with a radius of 10 units.

Source: Nathan Charlton

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