SOLUTION: how do you find the volumes of cylinders, spheres, and cones?
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Question 445101: how do you find the volumes of cylinders, spheres, and cones?
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The volume of a cylinder is the area of the circular base times the height:
The volume of a cone is one-third of the volume of a cylinder with the same height and base radius:
Don't believe it? Try it. Get your hands on one of those clear plastic cylinders that Geometry teachers use -- one with an open base on one end. Also get a cone that is the same height and base radius. Fill the inverted cone with sand (or sugar or whatever) exactly to the top, then pour it into the cylinder. Repeat and repeat. The cylinder will be exactly full with no sand left over.
The volume of a sphere is 
times the volume of a cube with side measure equal to the sphere's radius.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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