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Originally Posted by shyra1353
wow .. okay that is so much simpler than anything come up so far. thanks for your help. and it is the right answer .. (the .714)
but the question still remains .. "what is an average circle ??"
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I did a quick search on "average circle" and one thing came up with an example problem just like the one you described at the beginning of this thread. It was from some SAT preparation thing.
It's my guess that "average circle" is some fancy name that some SAT prep company came up with to describe a solution method to the type of problem that you describe. In other words, "average circle" has nothing to do with circles (in a geometric sense), but I think it is more of a touchy-feely descriptor (kind of like "the circle of life" or "your solution has come full-circle".) The "average circle" is probably like the "food pyramid", if you know what I mean.
If you give us the context surrounding "average circle", perhaps we can better help decrypt the meaning. Is it described anywhere in the test-prep documents, or did you only find it in an example problem?
I have never heard of the term before now.
-Chris