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Geometry Difficulty 2.0 Junior Find the answer Canada

A piece of string fits exactly once around the perimeter of a square whose area is 144. Rounded to the nearest whole number, the area of the largest circle that can be formed from the piece of string is

(A) 144144 (B) 733733 (C) 113113 (D) 452452 (E) 183183

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