SOLUTION: The volume V of a right circular cone varies jointly as the square of its base radius and
its altitude h. What is the effect on V if r is halved and h is quadrupled?
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Question 1187681: The volume V of a right circular cone varies jointly as the square of its base radius and
its altitude h. What is the effect on V if r is halved and h is quadrupled?
Answer by ikleyn(52792) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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No effect.
The volume will remain the same.
Since this problem is a joke question, a good style requires me to stop my explanations at this point,
leaving it to the interested reader to think out the rest to the end on his (or her) own.
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