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Hi All,

This question can be solved by TESTing VALUES.

We're told that the area of the shaded region is 3 TIMES the area of the central circle...

Area of center = 1
Area of shaded region = 3(1) = 3
Area of FULL CIRCLE = 1+3 = 4

With those values....
Radius of center = 1
Radius of FULL CIRCLE = 2

The question asks how many times the circumference of the full circle is to the smaller circle...

Circumference of small circle = 2pi
Circumference of full circle = 4pi

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How do you get to the radius of the center being 1 and the radius of the full circle being 2? What is the math there? I am confused because if I solve for the radius for the circle that has an area of 1... I set 1=pier^2 which gives you the squareroot of (1/pie) which is not 1. Thank you :)
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Hi woohoo921,

Thanks for pointing out the missing references to pi in my original post (I've edited the post to correct the issue). The three areas should be represented as:

Area of center = 1pi
Area of shaded region = 3(1pi) = 3pi
Area of FULL CIRCLE = 1pi + 3pi = 4pi

These values would make the radius of the smaller circle equal to 1 and the radius of the larger circle equal to 2 (and the corresponding circumferences would be 2pi and 4pi).

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Hi woohoo921,

Thanks for pointing out the missing references to pi in my original post (I've edited the post to correct the issue). The three areas should be represented as:

Area of center = 1pi
Area of shaded region = 3(1pi) = 3pi
Area of FULL CIRCLE = 1pi + 3pi = 4pi

These values would make the radius of the smaller circle equal to 1 and the radius of the larger circle equal to 2 (and the corresponding circumferences would be 2pi and 4pi).

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Thank you! To confirm, you plugged in 1 to area of a circle=(pie)(r^2) to get it equal to => 1pie?
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Hi woohoo921,

Yes - by setting the area of the inner circle equal to 1pi (meaning that the radius would equal 1), then all of the other calculations (and additional values) proceed from there.

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The equation for this question is:
Area of the bigger circle - Area of the smaller circle = 3*(Area of the smaller circle)
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