SOLUTION: A wooden cylinder is carved to form a cone that has the same base area and same height as the original cylinder. What fraction of the wooden cylinder is wasted? Give a reason.

Question 1041490: A wooden cylinder is carved to form a cone that has the same base area and same height as the original cylinder. What fraction of the wooden cylinder is wasted? Give a reason.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The original cylinder has a volume of
.
The cone using the same base radius and height has a volume of,

So to go from cylinder to cone you need to remove this volume of wood,

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