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Latest revision as of 19:55, 22 January 2012
Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a 2-dimenstional surface or shape in the plane. Simply put, it is the value of a 2-D shape. To find the area in a shape, one typically uses an area formula. In terms of circles, it is A = πr2.