SOLUTION: a cylindrical container has a diameter of 12 inches and a height of 15 inches
what is the height of this container to the nearest tenth of a cubic inch
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Question 753417: a cylindrical container has a diameter of 12 inches and a height of 15 inches
what is the height of this container to the nearest tenth of a cubic inch
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The height is a unit of distance and you ask for a height as a unit of volume. This makes no sense. Are you asking for a distance or are you asking for the volume of the cylinder?
What if you want to ask THIS:
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A cylindrical container has a diameter of 12 inches and a height of 15 inches
What is the VOLUME of this container to the nearest tenth of a cubic inch?
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For this volume, we want the area of the cross section of the circular part and the height of the cylinder.
Volume = height * circularCrossSectionArea
Note that radius is diameter divided by 2.
Volume =
You can use a calculator and pick the accuracy you need.
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Actually, simplification first gives volume =
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