The flower bed is 13 square feet. You are using a circular sprinkler system, and the water reaches 8 feet out from the center. The sprinkler is located, from the bottom left corner of the bed, 10 feet up, and 6 feet to the right.

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Let's say you are a gardener, and you have just planted a lot of flowers that you want to water. The flower bed is 13 square feet. You are using a circular sprinkler system, and the water reaches 8 feet out from the center. The sprinkler is located, from the bottom left corner of the bed, 10 feet up, and 6 feet to the right.

  1. If the flower bed was a graph with the bottom left corner being the origin, what would the equation of the circle be then what percentage of the garden that is being watered?
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