Pizza Exchange Rate
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This is a story about pizza and geometry. Roy Chandan ordered a 9-inch pizza, and the waiter brought him two 5-inch pizzas instead. Chandan was getting an inch for free, the waiter said.
The seller mistakenly assumed a linear increase in area with diameter. This is not the case.
28 July 2022 Edit: 28 July 2022
- Topics:
- Measurement, Area, Space and Geometry, Circles
- Content Type:
- Calculator, Interesting, Investigation, Publisher, Flowing Data
- The Australian Curriculum
- Measurement and Geometry, Using units of measurement, ACMMG197 Year 8 Investigate the relationship between features of circles such as circumference, area
- The Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 New
- Year 7, Measurement Year 7, AC9M7M03 describe the relationship between π and the features of circles including the circumference
- NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus
- Measurement and Geometry, MA4-13MG Area
- NSW Curriculum New
- Measurement and space, Area and surface area, MA4-ARE-C-01 Area
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