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title: Finding Circumference of a Circle When Given the Area
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## Background information
##### What is circumference?
The length of enclosing boundary of a curved geometric figure.
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##### What is area?
Area is measure of how much space there is on a flat surface.
### Question: Find circumference of circle when area of circle is given?
##### Steps:
+ area of circle = &pi; &times; r<sup>2</sup>, so we shall find radius of circle from with this formulae.
+ circumference of circle = 2 &times; &pi; r, and put radius in this formulae to calculate circumference.
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Example,
Question) Find circumference of a circle with area = &pi;<sup>3</sup>?
Answer:
By above steps,
area = &pi; &times; r<sup>2</sup>
&pi;<sup>3</sup> = &pi; &times; &pi;<sup>2</sup>
by comparing, we get,
radius, r = &pi;
Now put this value in formulae for circumference,
cirucumference = 2 &times; &pi; r
= 2 &times; &pi; &pi;
= 2 &pi;<sup>2</sup>
Hence, we found the answer.
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### Area (A) of a Circle
A = π * radius<sup>2</sup>
### Circumference (C) of a Circle
C = 2 * π * radius
## To find the Circumference of a Circle given the area
1. Solve for the radius of the circle
radius = (A / π)<sup>½</sup>
2. Input the radius into the formula for the circumference and solve.
C = 2 * π * (A / π)<sup>½</sup>
#### More Information:
[Area of a Circle](https://guide.freecodecamp.org/mathematics/area-of-a-circle)
### Here are some cool illustrations
#### Circumference
![Circle](https://www.mathplanet.com/Oldsite/media/55567/circle01.png)
#### Area
![Area of circle](http://www.mathwarehouse.com/animated-gifs/images/area-of-circle-through-triangles-area-demo_xl.gif)