154. When will I need to work out the area of a circle?

Answer:
If this is your crop on your farm!

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This is center pivot (or central pivot or circle) irrigation. The area which is watered is pretty obvious. There are plenty of images on the internet and sites full of statistics.

I could imagine this making a good research homework. Apart from simply working out the fertile area, you could look at volume of water used – you could even work out the optimum size and number of circles for maximum coverage!

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