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9-147.
Find the area of the part of a typical basketball court shaded in the diagram below.
You can think of this as the area of a rectangle and half of a circle.
The radius of a circle is
The area of the rectangle is
The area of the circle is
We already counted half of the circle though, so we only need half of the area.
If the area of the whole circle is approximately
Now we just need to add the two together: