If hope is danger’s comforter, then too, insouciance steals batteries from the smoke alarm
Above are two concentric circles and a rhombus.
The area of the large circle added to the area of the small circle totals 29559.2453.
The difference in the areas of the large circle and the small circle is 3012.7874.
Find the area A of the rhombus.
A = _________ square meters
The first correct answer sent to [email protected] wins a gift card worth much ice cream at Tucker’s Ice Cream in Alameda.
Last week’s winner was K. Sengupta of Calcutta, INDIA, with A = 6724 m 2
Author’s note: Last week, I received a disturbing message: “Did you know that ChatGPT solves this problem faster than one can type it into the application? It took me about 10 minutes to solve it. ChatGPT took all of 5 seconds.” Hopefully no one is cheating!
Jeff Smith is a former Math teacher and a retired US Navy Lieutenant Commander. Reach him at [email protected].
