the diagrams shows 4 circles of equal radius touching each other.If the radius of each circle is 12 cm ,calculate the area of shaded region

Question

there is no option here for making diagram is it?

 

Answer 1

Is the shaded area enclosed by the four circles?

Here is a way to do it.

Link the four centers of the circles to get a square. Take a whole circle's area away from the square's area.

The shaded area = 24^2 - pi(12^2) cm^2

 

Can you finish the calculation?

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Attn: Actually, you take away 4 quarter circles' area away, which is equal to a whole circle's area.