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Latoya cut a circle into 8 equal sections and arranged the pieces to form a shape resembling a parallelogram.

A. How is the base length of the new shape related to the

circumference of the circle?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Each sector has arc length C/8 (where C is the circle's circumference). The parallelogram's base is made from 4 such arcs, so its length is 4·(C/8) = C/2.

Thus the base equals half the circle's circumference.