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The formula for the area of a circle is pi x radius2. You might round pi, which is about 3.1416, to the fraction 22/7 ( which equals 3.1428) if you like, but this (just like the decimal quoted above) is only an approximation.

The two numbers give answers that are only 0.2% different.

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