Mrs. Simpson is frosting circular sugar cookies. Each cookie is 6 cm in diameter. About how many square centimeters will she need to frost each cookie?

Respuesta :

Answer:

9 pi

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer:

28.274 cm^2 (remember units are important)

Step-by-step explanation:

The answer is the area of the cookie. The area of the cookie (neglecting its thickness) is:

A = pi(r^2)

here the radius is 1/2 the diameter of 6 cm:

A = 3.14159 * 3^2 or A = 3.14159* 9 = 28.274 cm^2