{"id":2348,"date":"2013-08-28T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2018-02-20T19:50:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T19:50:22","slug":"area-size-of-a-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/area-size-of-a-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Area:  size of a pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>As a math tutor, you notice these little surprises about everyday things.<\/h1>\n<p>We all know that, with a circle,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Area=\u03a0r<sup><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, I worked in a pizza place. A small was 10&#8243; (diameter), while a large was 14&#8243;. Let&#8217;s compare the sizes.<\/p>\n<p>First, we&#8217;ll agree that from an eating point of view, the size of a pizza is really its area, rather than its diameter.<\/p>\n<p>For the small, the diameter being 10&#8243;, its radius is of course 5&#8243;. Its area is<\/p>\n<p>A=\u03a0r<sup><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2<\/span><\/sup>=\u03a0(5)<sup><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2<\/span><\/sup>=\u03a0(25)\u224878.5 square inches<\/p>\n<p>For the large, the diameter being 14&#8243;, its radius is 7&#8243;, so its area is<\/p>\n<p>A=\u03a0r<sup><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">2<\/span><\/sup>=\u03a0(49)\u2248154 square inches<\/p>\n<p>The ratio of the areas:<\/p>\n<p>large\/small=154\/78.5=1.96<\/p>\n<p>I think we can agree that 1.96\u22482.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the 14 inch pizza is really twice the size of the 10 inch. You can check what kind of deal you&#8217;re getting on the large:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a math tutor, you notice these little surprises about everyday things. We all know that, with a circle, Area=\u03a0r2. Years ago, I worked in a pizza place. A small was 10&#8243; (diameter), while a large was 14&#8243;. Let&#8217;s compare &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/area-size-of-a-pizza\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Area:  size of a pizza<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30231,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions\/30231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}