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A Slice of (Pi)zza Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 9/21/2016
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   other (other)

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Geocache Description:


We had a big pizza party to celebrate Ms Artemisworks's birthday on International Pi Day and a HUGE pizza with cheese, tomatoes, plenty of pepperoni, onions and pineapple chunks was served as the main highlight. Its diameter was a whopping 98 cm across, so there was lots to go around!

However, we all stupidly forgot to bring a usable knife to the party to cut the pizza. All we had was a completely circular cookie cutter! Coincidentally, this rather large cookie cutter had a diameter that was exactly half that of the pizza.

So we used it to cut the pizza up in the pattern shown in the diagram below. As it was her birthday, Ms Artemisworks got to eat the completely circular slices! The remainder of the pizza (marked in brown) went into the doggie bag.

Assuming that π = 22/7 and that Team Artemisworks have a dog, what is the area of the pizza that the hungry dog eventually got to feast on?

 

Total area (marked in brown) = ABCD cm squared.

The cache can be found at:
N51 29.(A+C)(B+C-D)A
W000 11.(B X D)(C+1)D

 

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Uvag: Sebz gur pbzchgrq pbbeqvangrf, ybbx npebff gur ebnq, 2 terra obkrf. Oruvaq fznyyre obk. Cyrnfr ercynpr fb vg pnaabg or rnfvyl frra.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)