SOLUTION: The diameter of the moon is 3,474 kilometers. If the moon were made of green cheese, how many cubic kilometers of cheese would there be?
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Question 806609: The diameter of the moon is 3,474 kilometers. If the moon were made of green cheese, how many cubic kilometers of cheese would there be?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Exactly the same number of cubic kilometers of whatever the moon actually is made of.
Use the formula for the volume of a sphere to get a rough approximation. The moon is actually an oblate spheroid, but you don't have enough information to make that more accurate calculation.
The volume of a sphere is given by 
Don't forget that the radius is one-half of the diameter that you are given.
John
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My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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