How to find the volume of a cylinder - ISEE Upper Level Quantitative Reasoning

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What is the volume of a cylinder with a radius of 6 meters and a height of 11 meters? Use 3.14 for $\pi$ .

Note: The formula for the volume of a cylinder is:

$V=\pi r^2h$

Answer

To calculate the volume, you must plug into the formula given in the problem. When you plug in, it should look like this: . Multiply all of these out and you get . The units are cubed because volume is always cubed.

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The volume of a cylinder whose height is twice the diameter of its base is one cubic yard. Give its radius in inches.

Answer

The volume of a cylinder with base radius and height is

$V = \pi r^{2}h$

The diameter of this circle is ; its height is twice this, or . Therefore, the formula becomes

$V = \pi r^{2} \cdot 4r = 4\pi r^{3}$

Set this volume equal to one and solve for :

$4\pi r^{3} = 1$

$4\pi r^{3} \div 4\pi = 1 \div 4\pi$

$r ^{3}= \frac{1}{4\pi }$

$r =\sqrt[3]{ \frac{1}{4\pi }} =\frac{ \sqrt[3]{ 1 }} { \sqrt[3]{ 4\pi }} =\frac{ \sqrt[3]{ 1 } \cdot \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} } } { \sqrt[3]{ 4\pi } \cdot \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} }}=\frac{ \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} } } {\sqrt[3]{ 8\pi^{3} }}=\frac{ \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} } } {2\pi }$

This is the radius in yards; multiply by 36 to get the radius in inches.

$\frac{ \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} } } {2\pi } \cdot 36 = \frac{ 18 \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} } } {\pi }$

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What is the volume of a cylinder with a height of in. and a radius of in?

Answer

This is a rather direct question. Recall that the equation of for the volume of a cylinder is:

$V = \pi * r^2 * h$

For our values this is:

$A = \pi * 12^2 * 5=720\pi$

This is the volume of the cylinder.

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What is the volume of a cylinder with a height of in. and a radius of in?

Answer

This is a rather direct question. Recall that the equation of for the volume of a cylinder is:

$V = \pi * r^2 * h$

For our values this is:

$A = \pi * 2.5^2 * 14=87.5\pi$

This is the volume of the cylinder.

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What is the radius of a cylinder with a volume of $562.5\pi$ and a height of ?

Answer

Recall that the equation of for the volume of a cylinder is:

$V = \pi * r^2 * h$

For our values this is:

$562.5\pi = \pi * r^2 * 10$

Solve for :

Using a calculator to calculate $\sqrt{56.25}$ , you will see that

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What is the height of a cylinder with a volume of $646.875\pi$ and a radius of ?

Answer

Recall that the equation of for the volume of a cylinder is:

$V = \pi * r^2 * h$

For our values this is:

$646.875\pi = \pi * 7.5^2 * h= \pi * 56.25 * h$

Solve for :

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A cylinder has the following measurements:

Height: 12in
Diameter: 10in

Find the volume.

Answer

To find the volume of a cylinder, we will use the following formula:

$V = \pi \cdot r^2 \cdot h$

where r is the radius, and h is the height of the cylinder.

Now, we know the diameter of the cylinder is 10in. We also know the diameter is two times the radius. Therefore, the radius is 5in.

We know the height of the cylinder is 12in.

Knowing all of this, we can substitute into the formula. We get

$V = \pi \cdot (5\text{in})^2 \cdot 12\text{in}$

$V = \pi \cdot 25\text{in}^2 \cdot 12\text{in}$

$V = \pi \cdot 300\text{in}^3$

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The axle for a toy car has a length of 4 inches and a diameter of a quarter inch. What is the volume of the axle? Assume it is a cylinder.

Answer

The axle for a toy car has a length of 4 inches and a diameter of a quarter inch. What is the volume of the axle? Assume it is a cylinder.

Use the following formula for volume of a cylinder

$V_{cylinder}=\pi r^2h$

Where r and h are our radius and height, respectively.

In this case, we first need to change our diameter to radius. Because our diameter is one quarter of an inch, our radius will be one eighth of an inch.

Plug it in to get:

$V_{cylinder}=\pi (\frac{1}{8})^24=\pi\frac{1}{64}in^2*4in=\frac{4\pi}{64}in^3$

Simplify to get:

$\frac{4\pi}{64}in^3=\frac{\pi}{16}in^3$

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You are visiting the drive-through at the bank. You put you money in a cylindrical tube with a height of 8 inches and a radius of 2 inches. What is the volume of the tube?

Answer

You are visiting the drive-through at the bank. You put you money in a cylindrical tube with a height of 8 inches and a radius of 2 inches. What is the volume of the tube?

Begin with the formula for volume of a cylinder:

$V_{cylinder}=\pi r^2h$

We have r and h, which are our radius and height, respectively. Plug them in and solve

$V_{cylinder}=\pi (2in)^28in=\pi32in^2$

Making our answer:

$32\pi in^2$

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Find the volume of a cylinder with the following measurements:

diameter = 8cm

height = 5cm

Answer

To find the volume of a cylinder, we will use the following formula:

$V = \pi \cdot r^2 \cdot h$

where r is the radius and h is the height of the cylinder.

Now, we know the diameter of the cylinder is 8cm. We know that the diameter is two times the radius. Therefore, the radius is 4cm.

We also know the height of the cylinder is 5cm.

Knowing this, we can substitute into the formula.

$V = \pi \cdot (4\text{cm})^2 \cdot 5\text{cm}$

$V = \pi \cdot 16\text{cm}^2 \cdot 5\text{cm}$

$V = \pi \cdot 80\text{cm}^3$

$V = 80\pi \text{ cm}^3$

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Find the volume of a cylinder with a diameter of 8in and a height of 7in.

Answer

To find the volume of a cylinder, we will use the following formula:

$V = \pi r^2 h$

where r is the radius and h is the height of the cylinder.

Now, we know the diameter of the cylinder is 8in. We also know the diameter is two times the radius. Therefore, the radius is 4in.

We also know the height of the cylinder is 7in.

Knowing all of this, we can substitute into the formula. We get

$V = \pi \cdot(4\text{in})^2 \cdot 7\text{in}$

$V = \pi \cdot 16\text{in}^2 \cdot 7\text{in}$

$V = \pi \cdot 112\text{in}^3$

$V = 112\pi \text{ in}^3$

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Find the volume of a cylinder with a diameter of 14in and a height of 12in.

Answer

To find the volume of a cylinder, we will use the following formula:

$V = \pi \cdot r^2 \cdot h$

where r is the radius, and h is the height of the cylinder.

Now, we know the diameter of the cylinder is 14in. We also know the diameter is two times the radius. Therefore, the radius is 7in.

We know the height of the cylinder is 12in.

Knowing all of this, we can substitute into the formula. We get

$V = \pi \cdot (7\text{in})^2 \cdot 12\text{in}$

$V = \pi \cdot 49\text{in}^2 \cdot 12\text{in}$

$V = \pi \cdot 588\text{in}^3$

$V = 588\pi \text{ in}^3$

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A cylinder has the following measurements:

Height: 6in
Diameter: 16in

Find the volume.

Answer

To find the volume of a cylinder, we will use the following formula:

$V = \pi r^2 h$

where r is the radius and h is the height of the cylinder.

Now, we know the diameter of the cylinder is 16in. We also know the diameter is two times the radius. Therefore, the radius is 8in.

We also know the height of the cylinder is 6in.

Knowing all of this, we can substitute into the formula. We get

$V = \pi \cdot(8\text{in})^2 \cdot 6\text{in}$

$V = \pi \cdot 64\text{in}^2 \cdot 6\text{in}$

$V = \pi \cdot 384\text{in}^3$

$V = 384\pi \text{ in}^3$

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Your family owns a farm with a silo for storing grain. If the silo is 40 feet tall and 15 feet in diameter, what volume of grain can it hold?

Answer

Your family owns a farm with a silo for storing grain. If the silo is 40 feet tall and 15 feet in diameter, what volume of grain can it hold?

Begin with the formula for volume of a cylinder.

$V=\pi r^2h$

A cylinder is just a circle with height.

So, we know the height is 40 ft, but what is r?

If you said 15, you would be on track to get the problem wrong. That is because the diameter is 15 ft, so our radius is only 7.5 ft.

Plug these in to get our answer:

$V=\pi (7.5ft)^2(40ft)=2250 \pi ft^3$

Our answer should be

$2250 \pi ft^3$

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Let $\pi = 3.14$

Find the volume of a cylinder with a diameter of 12cm and a height of 7cm.

Answer

To find the volume of a cylinder, we will use the following formula:

$V = \pi r^2 h$

where r is the radius and h is the height of the cylinder.

Now, we know the diameter is 12cm. We know that the diameter is two times the radius. Therefore, the radius is 6cm.

We know the height of the cylinder is 7cm.

We know that $\pi = 3.14$ .

Knowing all of this, we can substitute into the formula. We get

$V = 3.14 \cdot (6\text{cm})^2 \cdot 7\text{cm}$

$V = 3.14 \cdot 36\text{cm}^2 \cdot 7\text{cm}$

$V = 3.14 \cdot 252\text{cm}^3$

$V = 791.28\text{cm}^3$

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You have a tennis ball canister which is cylindrical. If the radius of the cylinder is 3.5 cm, and the height is 21 cm, what is the volume of the canister?

Answer

You have a tennis ball canister which is cylindrical. If the radius of the cylinder is 3.5 cm, and the height is 21 cm, what is the volume of the canister?

Begin with the formula for volume of a cylinder:

$V=\pi r^2 h$

Where r is our radius and h is our height.

Note that the formula is just the formula for the area of a circle times the height, because a cylinder is really just a circle with height.

Now, plug in what we know and solve for V

$V=\pi (3.5cm)^2 (21cm)=\pi(12.25cm*21cm)=257.25 \pi cm^3$

So our answer is:

$V=257.25 \pi cm^3$

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Find the volume of a cylinder with a height of 9in and a radius of 8in.

Answer

To find the volume of a cylinder, we will use the following formula:

$V = \pi r^2 h$

where r is the radius and h is the height of the cylinder.

Now, we know the radius of the cylinder is 8in and the height of the cylinder is 9in.

So, we get

$V = \pi \cdot (8\text{in})^2 \cdot 9\text{in}$

$V = \pi \cdot 64\text{in}^2 \cdot 9\text{in}$

$V = \pi \cdot 576\text{in}^3$

$V = 576\pi \text{ in}^3$

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For a cylinder, if the radius of the base is 4, and the height is 10, what is the volume?

Answer

Write the formula to find the volume of a cylinder.

$V = \pi r^2h$

Substitute the known dimensions.

$V = \pi (4^2)(10)$

Solve for the volume.

$V =160 \pi$

The answer is: $160 \pi$

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What is the volume of a cylinder with a radius of 6 meters and a height of 11 meters? Use 3.14 for $\pi$ .

Note: The formula for the volume of a cylinder is:

$V=\pi r^2h$

Answer

To calculate the volume, you must plug into the formula given in the problem. When you plug in, it should look like this: . Multiply all of these out and you get . The units are cubed because volume is always cubed.

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The volume of a cylinder whose height is twice the diameter of its base is one cubic yard. Give its radius in inches.

Answer

The volume of a cylinder with base radius and height is

$V = \pi r^{2}h$

The diameter of this circle is ; its height is twice this, or . Therefore, the formula becomes

$V = \pi r^{2} \cdot 4r = 4\pi r^{3}$

Set this volume equal to one and solve for :

$4\pi r^{3} = 1$

$4\pi r^{3} \div 4\pi = 1 \div 4\pi$

$r ^{3}= \frac{1}{4\pi }$

$r =\sqrt[3]{ \frac{1}{4\pi }} =\frac{ \sqrt[3]{ 1 }} { \sqrt[3]{ 4\pi }} =\frac{ \sqrt[3]{ 1 } \cdot \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} } } { \sqrt[3]{ 4\pi } \cdot \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} }}=\frac{ \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} } } {\sqrt[3]{ 8\pi^{3} }}=\frac{ \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} } } {2\pi }$

This is the radius in yards; multiply by 36 to get the radius in inches.

$\frac{ \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} } } {2\pi } \cdot 36 = \frac{ 18 \sqrt[3]{ 2 \pi^{2} } } {\pi }$

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