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Area, SMB-004

The diagram shows the floor of a shower. The drain in the floor is a circle with a diameter of 10 cm.

Find the area of the shower floor, excluding the drain, to the nearest square centimetre.   (3 marks)
 

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`9921\ text(cm²)`

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`text(Area)` `=\ text(Square – Circle)`
  `= (100 xx 100)-(pi xx 5^2)`
  `= 10\ 000-78.5398…`
  `= 9921.46…\ text(cm²)`
  `= 9921\ text{cm² (nearest cm²)}`