Now let’s calculate the area of a circular plate. In the example below, we can see that our circular plate has a radius of eight feet. Using the formula for calculating the area of a circle, we would multiply pie, which has a value of three point one four, with the square of eight feet. Squaring a number, just means multiplying the number by itself the number of times indicated in the exponent. If the exponent is two, then we multiply the number by itself 2 times, or in this case we multiply eight feet by eight feet. Putting it all together, we would multiply pie, by the result of multiplying eight feet by eight feet, or three point one four times sixty four, resulting in 200.96 squared feet.
