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When rectangles are inscribed, they lie entirely inside the area you're calculating. They never cross over the curve that bounds the area. Circumscribed rectangles cross over the curve and lie partially outside of the area. Circumscribed rectangles always yield a larger area than inscribed rectangles.
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What is the difference between an inscribed and a circumscribed shape?
What is the difference between an inscribed and a circumscribed shape?
Whhat is the difference between an inscribed and an circumscribed shape?
Inscribed has the vertices n the circle.Circumscribed has the sides tangent to the circle.
What is the difference between inscribed and circumscribed?
== == Inscribed is a polygon inside a circle with all points on a given point in the circle. Circumscribed is a circle inside a polygon with any given point touching just one point on the polygon. Hope this helped.
What can be said about the relationship between triangle and circles?
Exactly one circle can be inscribed in a given triangle.Many triangular shapes can be inscribed in a given circle.
What are the five differences between inscribed and circumscribed?
I can only think of one myself, it explains the gist of the question. In my experience, INSCRIBED shapes or figures lie INSIDE of something else; while CIRCUMSCRIBED figures are the OUTSIDE shape in the same instance. As they are interchangable depending on which of the shape(s) you're discussing, it is also not necessary (though often assumed) that one of the shapes be a circle.
