Thanks, Hayley.....!!!
I'll go through my method of solving this....
First......find the radius of the circle
500 = pi*r^2
500/pi = r^2
r = sqrt(500/pi)
Now....we have have 8 triangles, and the area of each is given by :
500pi / [2sqrt(2)] (1)
Multiply (1) by 8 and you have your answer
