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Example Question #671 : Geometry And Graphs
Find the volume of a cone with a radius of and a height of .
Write the formula for the volume of a cone.
Substitute the radius and height into the formula.
The answer is:
Example Question #672 : Geometry And Graphs
What is the volume of a hemisphere with a radius of 2?
Recall that the volume of a full sphere is:
A hemisphere would be half this volume.
Substitute the radius.
The answer is:
Example Question #673 : Geometry And Graphs
A cube has a length of 9cm. Find the volume.
To find the volume of a cube, we will use the following formula:
where l is the length, w is the width, and h is the height of the cube.
Now, we know the length of the cube is 9cm. Because it is a cube, all sides/lengths are equal. Therefore, the width and height are also 9cm.
Knowing this, we can substitute into the formula. We get
Example Question #673 : Geometry And Graphs
Find the volume of a cube with a height of 6cm.
To find the volume of a cube, we will use the following formula:
where l is the length, w is the width, and h is the height of the cube.
Now, we know the height of the cube is 6cm. Because it is a cube, all lengths/sides/etc are equal. Therefore, the length and the width are also 6cm.
So, we substitute. We get
Example Question #674 : Geometry And Graphs
Find the volume of a cone with a radius of 8in and a height of 6in.
To find the volume of a cone, we will use the following formula:
where r is the radius and h is the height of the cone.
Now, we know the radius is 8in. We know the height is 6in. So, we can substitute. We get
Example Question #122 : 3 Dimensional Geometry
An office uses cone-shaped paper cups for water in their water cooler. The cups have a radius of inches and a height of inches. If the water cooler can hold cubic inches of water, how many complete cups of water can the water cooler fill?
Start by finding the volume of a cup.
Recall how to find the volume of a cone:
Plug in the given radius and height to find the volume.
Now divide the total volume of the water in the water cooler by the volume of one cup in order to find how many complete cups the water cooler can fill.
Since the question asks for the number of complete cups that can be filled, we must round down to .
Example Question #121 : 3 Dimensional Geometry
How many edges and vertices are found on a square pyramid?
The base of a square pyramid is, as the name suggests, a square which has edges and vertices. The vertices of the square each have edges that meet at a single point, adding an additional vertex and additional edges. Together, a square pyramid has edges and vertices.
Example Question #122 : 3 Dimensional Geometry
How many vertices does an octagonal pyramid have?
Seven
Eight
Six
Nine
Nine
An octagonal pyramid has a base with eight vertices, each of which is a vertex of the pyramid. There is one more vertex, or the apex, which is connected to each of the vertices of the base by an edge. Nine is the correct choice.
Example Question #123 : 3 Dimensional Geometry
A circular swimming pool at an apartment complex has diameter 18 meters and depth 2.5 meters throughout.
The apartment manager needs to get the interior of the swimming pool painted. The paint she wants to use covers 40 square meters per can. How many cans of paint will she need to purchase?
You may use 3.14 for .
The pool can be seen as a cylinder with depth (or height) 2.5 meters and a base with diameter 18 meters - and radius half this, or 9 meters.
The bottom of the pool - the base of the cylinder - is a circle with radius 9 meters, so its area is
square meters.
Its side - the lateral face of the cylinder - has area
square meters.
Their sum - the total area to be painted - is square feet. Since one can of paint covers 40 square meters, divide:
Nine cans of paint and part of a tenth will be required, so the correct response is ten.
Example Question #1 : Faces And Surface Area
A water tank takes the shape of a sphere whose exterior has radius 24 feet; the tank is six inches thick throughout. To the nearest hundred, give the surface area of the interior of the tank in square feet.
Use 3.14 for .
Six inches is equal to 0.5 feet, so the radius of the interior of the tank is
feet.
The surface area of the interior of the tank can be calculated using the formula
,
which rounds to 6,900 square feet.