SOLUTION: Water is poured into a rectangular container 20 cm long 14 cm wide 9 cm high until 5/6 full. All this water is then poured into an empty cylindrical container with a radius of 15 c

Question 850357: Water is poured into a rectangular container 20 cm long 14 cm wide 9 cm high until 5/6 full. All this water is then poured into an empty cylindrical container with a radius of 15 cm and height 20 cm. What is the height of the water in the cylinder?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Volume of water in the first container: .

That same volume in the cylindrical container:
Let y = height of the water;

Solve for y.

Depending on how much accuracy you can accept, centimeters high.
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