Source: Veritas Prep
A pizzeria makes pizzas that are shaped as perfect circles, and measures pizza size by the diameter of a pizza. By surface area, approximately what percent is a \(16\)-inch pizza that a \(12\)-inch pizza?
A. \(33\%\)
B. \(44\%\)
C. \(56\%\)
D. \(67\%\)
E. \(78\%\)
The OA is E
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Area of \(16\)-inch pizza \(= \pi \cdot 8^2 = 64 \pi\)BTGmoderatorLU wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 12:23 pmSource: Veritas Prep
A pizzeria makes pizzas that are shaped as perfect circles, and measures pizza size by the diameter of a pizza. By surface area, approximately what percent is a \(16\)-inch pizza that a \(12\)-inch pizza?
A. \(33\%\)
B. \(44\%\)
C. \(56\%\)
D. \(67\%\)
E. \(78\%\)
The OA is E
Area of \(12\)-inch pizza \(= \pi \cdot 6^2 = 36 \pi\)
\(16\)-inch pizza is larger than \(12\)-inch pizza by \(\dfrac{64\pi-36\pi}{36\pi} = \dfrac{28\pi}{36\pi} = \dfrac{28}{36} = \dfrac{7}{9} = 77.7777\% \approx 78\%\)
Therefore, E
