Anna cuts four identical circles from a square piece of black poster board as shown. What is the area of the left over poster board? Use 3.14 for pi.

Answer:
A) 3.44 square feet
Step-by-step explanation:
The area of the black poster board would be
A = 4(4) = 16 square feet.
There are 4 identical circles in the poster board. The formula for the area of a circle is
A = πr²
Since there are 2 circles across the width of the poster board, this means two diameters are 4 feet. This makes each diameter 2 feet. The radius of a circle is half of the diameter; this makes the radius 1 feet. This gives us
A = π(1²) = 3.14(1²) = 3.14
This is the area of each circle. There are 4 circles in the poster board; this makes
4(3.14) = 12.56
This makes the left over area
16-12.56 = 3.44 square feet