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+#program to find area of circle using functions
+import math
+
+#Function that calculates area of circle
+def area_of_circle(r): 
+    a = r**2 * math.pi
+    return a
+
+r = float(input("Enter the radius of the circle: "))
+print("%.2f" %area_of_circle(r))
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