SOLUTION: A child's wading pool has a diameter of 7 feet and is 8 inches deep. How many gallons of water can the pool hold? Round answer to the nearest 0.1 gallon.

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Question 432722: A child's wading pool has a diameter of 7 feet and is 8 inches deep. How many gallons of water can the pool hold? Round answer to the nearest 0.1 gallon.
Answer by rwm(914)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

This is not a rate of work nor a classic pool filling problem. I moved it to geometry. It is just asking the volume of the pool in gallons.
You need the formula for the volume of a cylinder.
diameter 7 feet [radius is 3.5 ft] and depth 8 inches
v=3.14* r^2 *h
3.14*3.5^2*2/3
307.72 cu feet
which will give you cubic feet
1 cu foot =7.481 gallons
2302 gallons

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