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Inscribed Semicircle

This problem was posed on Twitter the other day.

A semicircle is inscribed in a rectangle. If the area of the semicircle is pi, what's the area of the rectangle?

My question is ... how could you draw the inscribed semicircle in a way that gives a rectangle of a very different (and larger) area?


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