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Practice 1:

Samantha wraps a piece of string around a soup can and cuts the string so that its ends just meet. She then measures the length of this piece of string and the diameter of the lid of the can.

  • If Samantha were to divide the length of the string by the diameter, which of these does the quotient represent?

Circumference = 2 x x radius

  1. Pi
  2. Area
  3. Radius
  4. Diameter

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