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Question from grier, a student:

please,
what is the area of a semicircle with arc length 3pi?

Hi Grier,

If the arc length of half a circle is 3 π, what is the arc length (circumference) of the entire circle?

circle

The circumference of a circle is 2 × π × (the radius) so what is the radius of the circle? What is the formula for the area of a circle? What is the area of this circle?

Penny

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