You would like to put a rug into a circular room. You want the rug to touch the walls in a few places, but you don’t want the rug to be a circle. You’ve decided that the rug should be a square. Given that the radius of the room is 10 ft., determine the length of one side of your rug and the area that it will cover.

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You would like to put a rug into a circular room. You want the rug to touch the walls in a few places, but you don’t want the rug to be a circle. You’ve decided that the rug should be a square. Given that the radius of the room is 10 ft., determine the length of one side of your rug and the area that it will cover. 

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