43. A circle is inside a rectangle 6 inches wide and 8 inches long and is tangent to 3 sides of the rectangle. What is the area, in square inches, of the circle?

Answer and Explanation

Your Answer is

Correct Answer is C

Explanation

According to the title, the circle is tangent to the three sides of the rectangle. From the drawing, we can see that the three sides are two long sides and one short side, so r=3. Therefore, the area is 32 π =9 π