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Example Question #11 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder
What is the volume of a cylinder with a radius of 4 and a height of 5?
Example Question #12 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder
Claire's cylindrical water bottle is 9 inches tall and has a diameter of 6 inches. How many cubic inches of water will her bottle hold?
The volume is the area of the base times the height. The area of the base is , and the radius here is 3.
Example Question #13 : Cylinders
What is the volume of a circular cylinder whose height is 8 cm and has a diameter of 4 cm?
The volume of a circular cylinder is given by where is the radius and is the height. The diameter is given as 4 cm, so the radius would be 2 cm as the diameter is twice the radius.
Example Question #832 : Geometry
You have tall glass with a radius of 3 inches and height of 6 inches. You have an ice cube tray that makes perfect cubic ice cubes that have 0.5 inch sides. You put three ice cubes in your glass. How much volume do you have left for soda? The conversion factor is .
First we will calculate the volume of the glass. The volume of a cylinder is
Now we will calculate the volume of one ice cube:
The volume of three ice cubes is . We will then subtract the volume taken up by ice from the total volume:
Now we will use our conversion factor:
Example Question #1 : Cylinders
A water glass has the shape of a right cylinder. The glass has an interior radius of 2 inches, and a height of 6 inches. The glass is 75% full. What is the volume of the water in the glass (in cubic inches)?
The volume of a right cylinder with radius and height is:
Since the glass is only 75% full, only 75% of the interior volume of the glass is occupied by water. Therefore the volume of the water is:
Example Question #14 : Cylinders
A circle has a circumference of and it is used as the base of a cylinder. The cylinder has a surface area of . Find the volume of the cylinder.
Using the circumference, we can find the radius of the circle. The equation for the circumference is ; therefore, the radius is 2.
Now we can find the area of the circle using . The area is .
Finally, the surface area consists of the area of two circles and the area of the mid-section of the cylinder: , where is the height of the cylinder.
Thus, and the volume of the cylinder is .
Example Question #13 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder
A metal cylindrical brick has a height of . The area of the top is . A circular hole with a radius of is centered and drilled half-way down the brick. What is the volume of the resulting shape?
To find the final volume, we will need to subtract the volume of the hole from the total initial volume of the cylinder.
The volume of a cylinder is given by the product of the base area times the height: .
Find the initial volume using the given base area and height.
Next, find the volume of the hole that was drilled. The base area of this cylinder can be calculated from the radius of the hole. Remember that the height of the hole is only half the height of the block.
Finally, subtract the volume of the hole from the total initial volume.
Example Question #14 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cylinder
What is the volume of a cylinder with a diameter of 13 inches and a height of 27.5 inches?
The equation for the volume of a cylinder is V = Ah, where A is the area of the base and h is the height.
Thus, the volume can also be expressed as V = πr2h.
The diameter is 13 inches, so the radius is 13/2 = 6.5 inches.
Now we can easily calculate the volume:
V = 6.52π * 27.5 = 1161.88π in3
Example Question #21 : Cylinders
Two cylinders are full of milk. The first cylinder is 9” tall and has a base diameter of 3”. The second cylinder is 9” tall and has a base diameter of 4”. If you are going to pour both cylinders of milk into a single cylinder with a base diameter of 6”, how tall must that cylinder be for the milk to fill it to the top?
5"
9"
12"
6.25"
30"
6.25"
Volume of cylinder = π * (base radius)2 x height = π * (base diameter / 2 )2 x height
Volume Cylinder 1 = π * (3 / 2 )2 x 9 = π * (1.5 )2 x 9 = π * 20.25
Volume Cylinder 2 = π * (4 / 2 )2 x 9 = π * (2 )2 x 9 = π * 36
Total Volume = π * 20.25 + π * 36
Volume of Cylinder 3 = π * (6 / 2 )2 x H = π * (3 )2 x H = π * 9 x H
Set Total Volume equal to the Volume of Cylinder 3 and solve for H
π * 20.25 + π * 36 = π * 9 x H
20.25 + 36 = 9 x H
H = (20.25 + 36) / 9 = 6.25”
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Volume Of A Cube
A cubic box has sides of length x. Another cubic box has sides of length 4x. How many of the boxes with length x could fit in one of the larger boxes with side length 4x?
80
16
40
4
64
64
The volume of a cubic box is given by (side length)3. Thus, the volume of the larger box is (4x)3 = 64x3, while the volume of the smaller box is x3. Divide the volume of the larger box by that of the smaller box, (64x3)/(x3) = 64.