SOLUTION: A food company distributes its tomato soup in two cans of different sizes. For the larger can, the diameter has been increased by 30%,and the height remains the same. By what perce
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Question 1032536: A food company distributes its tomato soup in two cans of different sizes. For the larger can, the diameter has been increased by 30%,and the height remains the same. By what percentage does the volume of the can increase from the smaller can to the larger can? Round your answer to the nearest percent.
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The formula for the volume of a cylinder is
If the diameter is increased by 30%, that means the radius is increased by 30%...
Now if we replace r in the above formula with (1.3)r, we find that the new volume has increased by
(1.3r)^2 = 1.69r^2, an increase of 69%.
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