SOLUTION: You have a ball in the shape of a sphere, with a diameter of 10cm. You want to fill the ball with a gel liquid. You use a cone to fill the sphere. The cone has a height of 3cm and

Question 1064720: You have a ball in the shape of a sphere, with a diameter of 10cm. You want to fill the ball with a gel liquid. You use a cone to fill the sphere. The cone has a height of 3cm and an unknown radius. What will the radius need to be to fill the ball completely with one pour from the cone? Show your work.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Volume of the sphere

Cone volume needs to be the same as for the sphere.
r is radius of this cone's circular base.

(or you could continue and rationalize the denominator.)
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