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Difference Between Circle and Circumference

The circumference is a geometric place that consists of points equidistant from a center, while the circle is the interior surface delimited by the circumference. Both share elements such as radius, diameter, and center. While the perimeter of a circle is calculated as the perimeter of its circumference, the area of a circle depends on its radius and is obtained by multiplying pi by the radius squared.

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Difference Between Circle and Circumference

The circumference is a geometric place that consists of points equidistant from a center, while the circle is the interior surface delimited by the circumference. Both share elements such as radius, diameter, and center. While the perimeter of a circle is calculated as the perimeter of its circumference, the area of a circle depends on its radius and is obtained by multiplying pi by the radius squared.

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Difference between circle and circumference

First of all, you must be clear about the difference between


circle and circumference.
The circumference is a geometric place that is characterized
because all its points are at the same distance from the same one
point. That point is the center of the circumference:

The circle is the


surface that is enclosed within the circumference. The
Circumference is the perimeter of the circle:

We can say that a circular example can be a


ring, while an example of a circle can be a
currency

Main elements of the circumference


Let’s now look at the main elements of the
circle. There are many more, but let's look at only the
what do you need in order to calculate areas and perimeters.

Center

The center is a point that is inside the circumference and


it has the same distance to any point of the
circumference

Radio

The radius is the segment that connects the center of the circumference.
with any point of the perimeter:

Diameter

The diametral line is the segment that connects two points on the perimeter.
from the circumference, passing through the center:
The diameter is equal to double the radius.

Therefore, we can calculate the diameter from the radius:

Where D is the diameter and r is the radius.

How to calculate the perimeter of a circle


The perimeter of the circumference is the length that measures
this is calculated by multiplying the radius by π and by 2:

Where r is the radius of the circumference.


As we have seen before, since the diameter is two
sometimes the radius, we can express the radius as a function of
diameter
And therefore, we can also calculate the perimeter of the
circumference, if we know its diameter with the following
formula:

Where D is the diameter of the circle.

How to calculate the area of a circle


The circumference has no area.
As we have seen before, the area that is within the
Circumference is the circle. Therefore, when we talk about area
of the circumference, what is really meant is the
area of the circle, which we will see below how it is calculated.

How to calculate the perimeter of a circle


The perimeter of the circle is a circumference, so
calculate the perimeter of the circle and the perimeter of the
circumference is exactly the same and therefore they are used
the same formulas:

How to calculate the area of a circle


To calculate the area of the circle we must know its radius or
its diameter.
It is calculated by multiplying π by the radius squared:

Where r is the radius of the circle.

We can also calculate the area of a circle based on


its diameter.
We already know that the radius can be expressed as the diameter.
match by two

If we substitute this expression for the radius into the area formula
from the circle, we obtain the formula in terms of the diameter:

Where D is the diameter of the circle.

Solved exercises on area and perimeter of the circle


Let's solve some exercises on calculating area now.
and the perimeter of a circle applying the previous formulas.
In general, one must be very careful with the units of
the lengths and always express the result with its
corresponding units.
Exercise 1

Calculate the area of a circle with a radius of 20 cm.


We have as data that r=20 cm.
Therefore, based on the formula for the area of a circle:
We substitute r with 20 and operate:

The area of the circle is 1256.63 cm²


Exercise 2

Calculate the perimeter of a circle knowing that its


the diameter is 2 m.
We know that the diameter of the circle is 2 meters.

As the diameter is twice the radius:

We can calculate what the radius is by dividing the diameter.


between 2:

Now, in the perimeter formula:

We substitute the radius with its value and operate:

The perimeter of the circle is 6.28 m


We could have also calculated its perimeter directly.
with the diameter data applying this formula:
What would remain for us:

Exercise 3

The area of a circle is 25 cm². How long is its radius?


perimeter?
First of all, in the formula for the area of a circle:

We substitute the area with the value of 25 cm² that gives us it.
statement:

Then we solve for r and operate to obtain its value:

With this radius value, we can now calculate the perimeter.


For this, in the formula for the perimeter of a circle:

We substitute the value of the radius that we have calculated and


we operate

The perimeter of the circle is 17.71 cm.

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