What Measurements Make a Circle?

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

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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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