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Geometry Level 2

If the radius of a circle is increased by 100%, the area is increased by?

200% 300% 100% 400%

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13 solutions

John M.
Nov 2, 2014

Lol nice pic!

So, area of a circle is π r 2 \pi r^2 .

Increasing by 100% is doubling. So, if we double our r r , our area will quadruple:

π ( 2 r ) 2 = 4 π r 2 \pi (2r)^2=\boxed{4\pi r^2}

And quadruple, in terms of increased by , will be 300 300 %.

Why?

Because increase by simply tells us to take whatever we have and add that percentage of it to it. So for example, if you ave 100$, and you want to increase it by 50%, you'd simply add 50% of it to it:; 100$ + 50$ = 150$.

And we have a general pattern: if something increases X X times, it increases by ( X 1 ) 100 (X-1)100 %.

yeah

Tricky wording... Increased by vs what is the area. Chose 400% because thats the total area compared to the original.

E L - 5 years, 7 months ago

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That's exactly what I did as well.

Cliff Burney - 5 years, 6 months ago

Lol I'm at work so I didn't even think :p

Steve Aidoo - 5 years, 2 months ago

Ahhh gotcha gotcha was wondering to ok now it makes sense

Sergio Santos - 5 years, 2 months ago

Yo falle. Mi respuesta fué 400% esto sucede por no poner atención, la pregunta es incremento. Lanueva área es 4 veces la original, entinces hay un incremento de 3 áreas, que en porcentaje es 3 x 100/100 = 300/100 = 300%. it's okay ....

I failed. My answer was 400% this happens for not paying attention, the question is increased. The new area is 4 times the original, then there is an increase of 3 areas, that percentage is 3 x 100/100 = 300/100 = 300%. it's okay ....

Jaime Maldonado - 5 years, 8 months ago

You r write Mr. John

Md Shahid - 5 years, 11 months ago

The problem could've been worded more clearly.

Frankie Lerma - 5 years, 6 months ago

Man I thought of pi at first but 300% is approximate

Armin Nateghian - 5 years, 5 months ago

Brill thanks for explaining

Amy Hudspith - 5 years, 7 months ago

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Thanks!

Now lemme post a bunch of smiley faces because the above response is apparently too short for Brilliant:

:) ;) ^.^ xD XD :D :)) >.< @.@ d(o.o)b

John M. - 5 years, 7 months ago

I got the same answer, Mr. Muradeli.

Jatin Kulkarni - 5 years, 5 months ago

This is wrong. Whatever.

Zachery Terrell - 5 years, 5 months ago

Increasing by 100% does mean doubling? I'm not getting dat!

Rebontika Nath - 5 years, 5 months ago

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You have a ammount, which is a 100% of itself, and you increase 100% more. Resulting 200%. Double of the original ammount

Solano Palacio - 5 years, 2 months ago

Ahh makes sense, I was trying to replace numbers into r but it made it more confusing. Thanks for explaining!

Anmol Seth - 5 years, 4 months ago

Ahahha got completely fooled by the wording.

Priscilla Machado - 5 years, 1 month ago

That was a good question😂😂😂

Dreamy Delinquent - 5 years, 1 month ago

I put 400 because I forgot the increase by

Zachary Smolar - 4 years, 11 months ago

Answered 400% since I forgot that if it is 4x growth it is 300% smh

Matthew Morris - 4 years, 7 months ago
Vipul Hémbrom
Nov 9, 2014

Original radius = r r

Increase in radius = r × r\times 100% = r r

New radius = r r + r r = 2 r 2r

Original area = π r 2 \pi r^2

New area = π ( 2 r ) 2 \pi (2r)^2 = 4 π r 2 4 \pi r^2

Percent increase in area = ( 4 π r 2 π r 2 ) π r 2 \frac{(4 \pi r^2 - \pi r^2)}{\pi r^2} × \times 100% = 300%

Good and simple solution

Chaitanya Thakkar - 5 years, 9 months ago

This is the best answer among the rest.

Vaughn Fernandez - 5 years, 8 months ago

Best solution

Utsav Patel - 5 years, 7 months ago

Niceee solution

Prashant Verma - 5 years, 6 months ago

Thanx for getting an legible answer vipul...

Gulam Jilani - 5 years, 6 months ago

Lol i always tell my students to not forget and substract the initial 100% and what do i do?

Peter van der Linden - 4 years, 9 months ago
Henrique Ribeiro
Nov 5, 2014

To well understand this question, we can apply using 1 as example. A circle with 1 of radius, the area is π x r². Now increasing 100%, the radius is 2 and the area will increase by 4x. And to increase 4x, you need 300% because 1 + 3 = 4. Simple.

Itay Seith
Jul 5, 2015

Original radius is r. Double radius is 2r. Area of circle is pi rsquared. If radius is 1 then 1+1=2 2 squared = 4. 100%+x=400% thus x=300%.

yes,thats right

Tejas Phirke - 5 years, 10 months ago

It is fairly easy to work put by eye. Imagine the small circle in the middle of the big circle and then look at the area of the big circle that is not covered by the small circle, this is the increase in size. Split the increase into quarters, and each quarter clearly wouldn't fill the area of the small circle. Split it in half and it would more than fill the small circle. Therefore thirds looks about right so the increase is equivalent to three times the area of the small circle. So the answer is 300%

Kshitij Alwadhi
Sep 25, 2015

Let area of original circle be r, area will be π r^2 . Now the radius is increased by 100% which means its doubled, so now radius is 2r, then area = π (2r)^2 =4 x π r^2 So the area becomes four times, but the answer wont be 400% because its asking for % increase in area, which will be (400-100)% = 300%

Brandon Lopez
Jul 15, 2015

Or which easier way is just to think of thr radius being multiplied by Pi which is about 3

Nmego Nmego
Feb 9, 2017

Let Radius of the circle be x Since it increases by 100% so the new radius will be x + x = 2x Consequently, the new area would be 4xx The old area is xx Now we can rush and say the answer is 400%, but wait, the question isn't asking for the ratio of the new area to the old area, it asks for the amount by which the area increases. To find it, we subtract the old area from the new area, 4xx - xx = 3xx, so the amount of increase is 300%

Yoon Ho Seol
May 21, 2016

Increased by 100% means doubling the length of radius. And since the shape is kept the same (perfect circle), we can just solve the area ratio using dimension.

Length: R : 2R = 1:2 100% increase Area: R^2 : (2R)^2 = 1:4 300% increase.

We can do similarly to 3d volume, 4th or more dimensions.

Volume: R^3 : (2R)^3 = 1:8 700% increase.

Manny Hidalgo
Mar 27, 2016

It just seemed three times larger.

James Lucia
Mar 9, 2016

I just figured, 3.14 is closer to 300% than 400% and chose the answer based off of that

Nikkil V
Mar 9, 2016

whaaaat........ lev 3 for this? its level1.

Jeffrey White
Aug 31, 2015

Lol, I guessed again.

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