In a zoology journal I read recently, I came across this statement: "The area of the outer circle was 3 times larger than that of the inner circle."
It was also given that the radius of the outer circle was 100 m while the radius of the inner circle was 50 m.
I tried verifying this using the equation: Ao/Ai=3 (Ao=area of outer circle, Ai = area of inner circle). But instead of getting the expected answer of 3, I got 4 instead. I suspect that there was something in the statement that made things quite confusing.
So I ask you, what did the statement mean? And what was the equation that was used for the said statement? I hope you can reply ASAP.
2007-09-16
15:50:53
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