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To find the area of a hemisphere, calculate the area of half of a sphere with the same radius and add the area of a great circle.
≈ 461.8 in.^2
A hemisphere is half of a sphere.
Therefore, to find the area of a hemisphere we need to calculate the area of half of a sphere with the same radius and add the area of a great circle.
We know that r=7 inches. We can substitute this value in the formula for the area of a hemisphere and simplify.
r= 7
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The area of the hemisphere is about 461.8 square inches.