The entire class held hands forming a big circle if the circle was 40 feet across the center then it was how many feet around round the answer to the nearest foot

Step 1; It is given that the big circle was 40 feet across the center. This implies the distance from any particular point on the circle to any other point is 40 feet. This means the diameter of this given circle is 40 feet. Any given circle's radius is 0.5 times the diameter of that same circle. So we divide 40 by 2 to get the circle's radius. So the radius is 40/2=20 feet. So the radius of this given circle is 20 feet.

Step 2; To find how many feet around means we need to find perimeter and not area. Area means the region inside the circle whereas perimeter is how long the circle is i.e how long the circle around is. So the distance around this circle is 2 multiplied with pi and its radius. The distance around any given circle = 2πr.

Perimeter of this circle = 2 × 3.141592 × 20 = 125.6637 feet.