Question

The Rockford's have a square play area that is built around a center sandbox that is in the shape of a circle. The sides of the play area are tangent to the circle. They want to determine the amount of grass seed to buy for the spring. If the diameter of the circular sandbox is represented by d use function notation to write a function to represent the play area only.

Answer 1

The area of the square is d^2. The area of the circle sandbox is πr^2=πd^2/4. So the area of play area only is equal to square area minus circle area which is d^2-πd^2/4.