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Posted by donna on Sunday, September 26, 2010 at 9:42pm.

three circles are externally tangent to each other. The radius of each circle is 6 inches. Find the following:

a)the length of the shortest wire athat goes around them.

b) the shaded area (space between them when stacked one circle on top of two)

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