SOLUTION: How do you find the dimensions of a plastic cup that would hold about the same amount of ice cream as a cone shaped container?
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Question 1036121: How do you find the dimensions of a plastic cup that would hold about the same amount of ice cream as a cone shaped container?
Answer by FrankM(1040) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A cone has the volume of 1/3 base (the full circle, the "top" of the icecream cone) times height.
Therefore the same soup-can cylinder can be 1/3 as tall to have the same volume.
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